Inuit Puns

His parents were having Nunavut.

They'll have Nunavut.

Younger one says, “I t’s getting cold, can we light a fire?” The older one says“no” The evening approaches and the young one again asks, “can we light a fire?” But the older one declines. They stop for the night and the young Inuit asks if they can light a fire, because is getting very cold. But the older one says “no” again and goes to sleep. The young one sneakily lights a fire and the kayak burns down.

Moral of the story: you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.

An emo

I was complaining about having to buy several permits today and told my girlfriend i was moving to Alaska to get away from "the man". She asked if my new Inuit wife would let her visit, I came up with:

• she can hold it while i put inuit

• we could work out a deal where we get to pay each other a visit on a regular basis like when you win the lottery and get an innuity

• you 2 could share lingerie if you think you could fit inuit

Two Inuits are out fishing on a kayak. They've been out all day, and the sun's setting. As the temperature drops, they decide to light a campfire on the watercraft, which, unsurprisingly sinks. This just goes to prove that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

You've got to be Inuit to win it

Tide

He wasn’t really inuit

Some just aren't Inuit.

They get inuit

I'm just not Inuit.

Let's go Inuit

I really don't want to get inuit with you.

But I wasn't really Inuit.

But they just weren't that Inuit.

I could try harder to be, but I guess I'm just not Inuit.

But I just wasn’t very Inuit

They get very Inuit.

Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

Inuit!

She’s not really Inuit

I wasn’t very Inuit

They couldn’t keep their bearings straight

But she wasn't really Inuit

... but I just wasn't that Inuit.

I forgot but I swear Inuit earlier.

No, I'm Inuit! He responded (as in not metiś)

Inuition.

He wasn't inuit.

Eh, he just wasn't that Inuit.

We better get inuit

Frozen Yoga

but I am having a hard time getting Inuit.

She wanted to take it to the next level, but I wasn't really Inuit.

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

Inuit.

She wasn't that Inuit.

Eskimo cannibalism isn't so bad...once you get Inuit.