There are scholars of slang who hunt for earliest documentable uses. Does anyone do the same for puns?<\/p>\n
In 1971, Larry Niven and David Gerrold published a novel The Flying Sorcerors<\/i>. Recently for the first time I found that pun made circa 1959 (but I’ve forgotten the context). And just now I heard an even earlier one: in “Broom-Stick Bunny”, 1956, Bugs says, “You’re not gonna believe this: I just saw a genie with light brown hair chasing a flying sorceress.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are scholars of slang who hunt for earliest documentable uses. Does anyone do the same for puns? In 1971, Larry Niven and David Gerrold published a novel The Flying Sorcerors. Recently for the first time I found that pun … Continue reading