All In a Word by Vivian Cook
Author:Vivian Cook
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781935554806
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2010-12-28T22:00:00+00:00
61. Playing with Words
Many English jokes and witticisms are based on play with words. The teller appears to be using the wrong word but it turns out to make a kind of sense. Oscar Wilde based many of his witticisms on malapropisms (see this page):
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
Genius is born, not paid.
The humor of Spike Milligan also often depends on deliberate exchanges of similar-sounding words, the kind of mistake we all make accidentally in speech:
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