Wordplay: Puns, Riddles, and Slang

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Banjo Strings and Drinking Gourds

Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia

62 episodes

4 days ago

History podcast of the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia covering topics like medicine, architecture, slavery, and 17th, 18th, and 19th century daily life from a living history museum.

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History podcast of the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia covering topics like medicine, architecture, slavery, and 17th, 18th, and 19th century daily life from a living history museum.

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Wordplay: Puns, Riddles, and Slang

Banjo Strings and Drinking Gourds

18 minutes 20 seconds

2 years ago

Wordplay: Puns, Riddles, and Slang

How many times have you stopped a conversation to either groan at or admire a pun? We all drop inadvertent puns into conversation. Sometimes we don't even catch them. Wordplay has been around as long as there has been language, but English really seems to lend itself to sly wit. In this episode, we discuss the rise and fall of the much maligned pun, playing with logic for riddles, and the advent of slang.

Intro Music: Zac Bell

Transition Music: Saint-Saens, The Carnival of The Animals- XIV. Finale, Seattle Youth Orchestra

Exit Music: Jean Claude Hatungimana

Cover Art: Emily Noble Day