The Little Book of Puns - Alison Westwood (Hardcover, 2011)

You\n may well ask the question \""A book of puns? How do they fill a whole \nbook? And doesn't it get a bit boring?\"" The answers are they don't, and \n(perhaps for that reason) it's not boring.\n\nMy concise Oxford \nEnglish Dictionary defines a pun as \""a joke exploiting the different \nmeanings of a word or the fact that there are words of the same sound \nand different meanings\"". We all know them, and it's traditional to greet\n one with a groan no matter how good it is. Here the approach seems to \nbe \""pun = pretty much any sort play or words, no matter how far away \nfrom the original definition that gets\"". So we find many varieties of \nthese, and even then there is evidence of padding in the form of \nprinting some in over-large bold type.\n\nHowever if you get past \nyour disappointment on this score, you'll probably like this book. It's \nwell arranged, contains a lot of new material (new to me at least) and \nhas some interesting information about humorous wordsmiths d.