You might find this PUN-believable, but there is an annual pun competition held in Durham each year. Contestants are matched up for one-on-one pun-offs until the final round, when the three top ...

Since ancient Greece, rhetoric has been a powerful form of speech used to persuade and impress an audience. Today, the wittiest among us sometimes exchange the most chuckle-inducing form of rhetoric: ...

Brace yourself for some pun-ishment, because we’ve got the best (and dumbest) puns from PunHub this week! Whether you love a ...

Who doesn’t love a good pun? We’ve rounded up the funniest, most groan-worthy pun memes the internet has to offer. We’re ...

Puns. The only legal form of torture. If you are a dad, a teacher, or a bleary-eyed English major running on no sleep and a lot of coffee, you can probably appreciate the artistry of a good pun. Or at ...

Away With Words: An Irreverent Tour Through the World of Pun Competitions. By Joe Berkowitz. Harper Perennial; 273 pages; $15.99 and £8.99. LAST week’s issue of this paper contained the following ...

If Rastafarians avoid the Panama Canal, is it because they dread locks? That groaner appears nowhere in "Away with Words," Joe Berkowitz's tour of America's pun competitions. But "dread locks" might ...