Homophonic Puns

. . . he keeps using the wrong words. It sounds right when he talks, but when he's writing it's just a mess.

>Weight a minute, look over their, those guise are using hare brushes on a whores!

Because of their fowl odour.

To comfort him I sat next to him, patted his back and said, "They're, their, there..."

Son: Eye

Father: Synonym for "sweet potato"?

Son: Yam

Father: Synonym for "casserole"?

Son: Stew

Father: Four-letter word, past tense of "to urinate"?

Son: Peed

Father: Hi Stupid, I'm Dad

I can still remember comforting me when I got overwhelmed - giving me a hug and saying "there, their, they're."

I just put to, too, and two together!

As I'm getting into my dad's truck, I hit my knee on the glove compartment.

Dad: What did you hit?

Me: (guestures to the glove compartment) I just kneed this!

Dad: …but it's mine.

So my daughter is sick and has been taking antibiotics for the past week. These antibiotics cause some unwanted side effects (unholy diarrhea) that require us to put a paste on her butt that keeps it from getting chapped. This lead to the following brief exchange between my wife and I:

(While she was changing an explosive diaper)

Her: Have you seen the butt balm?

Me: Yeah, it's right there in her diaper...

I said no, the fish there were actually pretty sociable.

Start in England and drive west.

I just realized an unfortunate truth about people who make puns.

Most of their jokes are homophonic.

It was homophonic.

Because his name is homophonous with "toot uncommon".

Note: Quality Very Varying (I see what I did there) and sometimes subject to specialist knowledge. So I apologise in advance. Shame me with your better puns.

While I was languishing in the Language Centre, doing some semantics antics and considering how all the other linguistics students despised and derided me, I was accosted by a stout man with large glasses who made me a preposition. It was that I should collect terrible puns, to do with linguistics, in order to ingratiate myself yet further with the other linguistics students (including even the phonetics fanatics).

I'm struggling to think of a pun to do with grammaticality that both makes sense and "Is grandma tickly?" correct. I'm also stuck on 'morphologician'. (I'm not actually sure that's a particularly logical word for the subject, though I guess that's more for, er, more for a logician to worry about.)

The problem I have with writing about phonological variation is that one is constantly forced to choose between being fun or logical - very Asian!I always get in trouble with electricians, they think I'm calling them a 'dialectician' whereas in fact I'm just saying "Die, electrician."

I like pscycholinguistics – the only department of linguistics where it’s acceptable to wear a cycle helmet. My Australian accent is terrible but I like to think my Sath Efrican one is predicate. My favourite accent is Received Pronunciation, because it is the accent chiefly used by invisible Japanese people who are ordered online. When the first recipient of an invisible Japanese person got the parcel, they wrote a complaint saying "Received but can't see Asian" and the name stuck.

Why did the speakers whose native languages weren't English, but whose only shared language was English, but they weren't very good at it and kept on having to stop to think about it, stop talking to one another? They came to an agreement. (Get it? If not, write your answer on a pastecard and paste it to the below address.)

What did the 'a' say to the 'the'? "You definitely are ticklish, 'the'!"

Why was the small man eaten by the large bear, which was proportionately bigger than him? It had, er, relative claws.

I think the reason there are so many speakers of Russian is because they all partake in an activity called "copulae shun". (Ok, ok, I know, that was Pushkin it.)

I know a man called Hillary who can, might, should, did, must, shall and will ride an ox. We call him "Ox Hillary".

I always think the verb 'to be' in the senten

"Hey son, what do you call a gay Blackberry?" "I dunno dad, what?" "A HOMOPHONE! HAHAHA"

He even slapped his knee a couple times.