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Asimov, Isaac. Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor, p. 175, § 252. 1971. Houghton Mifflin. New York.
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Collins, Michelle (6 June 2008). "The 50 Best Pun Stores". BestWeekEver.tv. Archived from the original on 21 June 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2012.

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Pollack, John (14 April 2011). The Pun Also Rises. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-101-51386-6.
Attardo, Salvatore. Linguistic Theories of Humor, p.109. Walter de Gruyter, 1994. Alleton, V.: L'écriture chinoise. Paris, 1970.
Elvin, Mark, "The Spectrum of Accessibility: Types of Humor in The Destinies of the Flowers in the Mirror", p. 113. In: Roger T. Ames (et al.): Interpreting Culture through Translation: a Festschrift for D. C. Lau. 1991, pp. 101–118.
Levitt, Paul M. (2002). Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2720-1.
Partington, Alan (2006). The Linguistics of Laughter: A Corpus-Assisted Study of Laughter-Talk. Routledge. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-41538166-6.
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Rogers, Bruce (1999). You Can Say That Again!. Dundurn. p. 95. ISBN 9781554880386.
Pinch, Geraldine Pinch (1995), Magic in ancient Egypt, University of Texas Press, p. 68.
Waley, Arthur (1982), Three ways of thought in ancient China Stanford University Press, p. 81.
Robson, Eleanor (2008), Mathematics in ancient Iraq: a social history, Princeton University Press, p. 31.
Whedbee, J. William (28 May 1998). The Bible and the Comic Vision. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521495073. Retrieved 7 February 2018 – via Google Books.
Danien, Elin C.; Robert J. Sharer (1993), New theories on the ancient Maya, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, UPenn Museum of Archaeology, p. 99.
Brown, Delmer M.; John Whitney Hall (eds), The Cambridge History of Japan: Ancient Japan, Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 463.

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Zinna, Eduardo (2013). "Yours Truly, Robert Bloch". Casebook.org. Retrieved 13 August 2016.

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Cutler, Sarah (8 June 2023). "Brooklyn's Pun Contest is Known for Silliness. But Competition Prep is No Joke". Columbia News Service. Retrieved 15 November 2024.

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"Welcome to the Punderdome". Columbia Daily Spectator. 27 October 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2024.

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"Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival". Comedy-festival.co.uk. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.

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Djafarova, Elmira (June 2008). "Why Do Advertisers Use Puns? A Linguistic Perspective". Journal of Advertising Research. 48 (2): 267–275. doi:10.2501/s0021849908080306. S2CID 167457581.
van Mulken, Margot; Renske van Enschot-van Dijk; Hans Hoeken (May 2005). "Puns, relevance and appreciation in advertisements". Journal of Pragmatics. 37 (5): 707–721. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2004.09.008.

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Campion, Freddie (23 July 2015). "The 5 Funniest Comedy Nights in America". GQ. Retrieved 15 November 2024.

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Although Zimmer was not able to trace it to its source, the Jamaica joke originated in American college boy humour: "(No headline)". The Yale Record. Vol. XL, no. 15. 2 June 1912. p. 447. Retrieved 23 April 2023.; "In Lighter Vein". The Brown Alumni Monthly. Vol. XIII, no. 4. November 1912. p. 111. Retrieved 28 April 2023.; "Commuting". The Graduate/University of California Medical Center. 1914. p. 88. Retrieved 28 April 2023.

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Schreiber, Mark (23 October 2017). "'Dajare' 101: Why should Japanese have all the pun?". The Japan Times. Retrieved 1 May 2023.

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Collins, Gemma (14 February 2014). "Comedy Festival Review: The UK Pun Championships at Just The Tonic". Leicester Mercury. Archived from the original on 29 August 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.

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"Paronomasia - Definition and Examples of Paronomasia". Literary Devices. 10 March 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2021.

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Colbyry, Thomas. "Examples of Puns in Shakespeare's Writings". Entertainment Guide. Demand Media. Archived from the original on 2 September 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2016.

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Reynolds, Eileen (11 May 2011). "Battle of Wits: A Report From the Punderdome". The New Yorker. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
Menand, Louis (2 July 2012). "Silence, Exile, Punning: James Joyce's chance encounters". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 31 October 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2016.

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Tartakovsky, Joseph (28 March 2009). "Pun for the Ages". The New York Times.
Tartakovsky, Joseph (28 March 2009). "Pun for the Ages". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
Vincent, Musetto (9 June 2015). "Vincent Musetto, 74, dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
Swisher, Kara (8 February 2019). "Jeff Bezos Isn't Afraid of Total Exposure". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 November 2024.

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Djafarova, Elmira (June 2008). "Why Do Advertisers Use Puns? A Linguistic Perspective". Journal of Advertising Research. 48 (2): 267–275. doi:10.2501/s0021849908080306. S2CID 167457581.

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Appleton, Andrea (23 July 2015). "The Mad Challenge of Translating "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". Smithsonian. Retrieved 13 August 2016.

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Hitchens, Christopher (1 December 2005). "Hurricane Lolita". The Atlantic. Retrieved 13 August 2016.

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Worth, Dan (15 May 2008). "Gluttons for pun-ishment". The Guardian.
Kaveney, Roz (2 July 2012). "John Donne, priest and poet, part 7: puns in defiance of reason". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2016.

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"PUNS". Tnellen.com. Retrieved 20 December 2011.

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Ben Zimmer. "Jottings on the 'Jamaica' joke", Language Log, 14 September 2008.

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Nichol, Donald W, ed. (30 November 2015). Anniversary Essays on Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'. University of Toronto Press. pp. 21, 41, 81, 102, 136, 141, 245. ISBN 9781442647961. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2016.

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Collins, Gemma (14 February 2014). "Comedy Festival Review: The UK Pun Championships at Just The Tonic". Leicester Mercury. Archived from the original on 29 August 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
Nichol, Donald W, ed. (30 November 2015). Anniversary Essays on Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'. University of Toronto Press. pp. 21, 41, 81, 102, 136, 141, 245. ISBN 9781442647961. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
Menand, Louis (2 July 2012). "Silence, Exile, Punning: James Joyce's chance encounters". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 31 October 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
Kaveney, Roz (2 July 2012). "John Donne, priest and poet, part 7: puns in defiance of reason". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
Colbyry, Thomas. "Examples of Puns in Shakespeare's Writings". Entertainment Guide. Demand Media. Archived from the original on 2 September 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2016.
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Collins, Michelle (6 June 2008). "The 50 Best Pun Stores". BestWeekEver.tv. Archived from the original on 21 June 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2012.

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Akst, Daniel (22 June 2017). "Low Wit in Its Highest Form". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 15 November 2024.

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