When a joke, or pun, was made unintended or by accident. When one word has two different meanings but you use the other meaning. The word pun itself originated in the 1660s, according to Etymonline. This word is of uncertain origin, but may have come from pundigron, which is an alteration of the Italian puntiglio which means “trivial objection or equivocation.” This comes from the Latin punctum, meaning “point.” The word pun is likely a clipped word that came into popular slang after the Restoration. Hello Cormac, a pun is a word play or play on words used in jest or double entendre i.e. when you want to sound funny and humorous. If you add this expression , you want to communicate to others that even if you do perhaps sound humorous , you did mean to be but you were dead serious. What you said may have come across as frivolous but you want to make sure you are not grossly misunderstood. After a bitter election during the Covid-19 pandemic, Joe Biden trumped his opponent - no pun intended.

In episode 4, Ellie reveals her pun book, No Pun Intended: Volume Too — which is regarded in Last of Us lore as her own personal and special belonging. Throughout the game, Ellie borrows jokes from a book several times, but eagle-eyed viewers were offered their first glimpse when Ellie introduced a few of the book’s puns to Joel during their cross-country journey to Wyoming. Great question. Simply, this is something you say after you have inadvertently or 'accidentally' created a play on word. A play on word is when you use words to be clever or witty for comedic purposes.The following puns are known to have come from this book after Riley gives it to Ellie in Left Behind. No: script No symbol, displayed 🚫 Numero sign, written "№" Lake No, in South Sudan No, Denmark, village in Denmark Nō, Niigata, a former town in Japan No Creek ...

Some may say that the root of pun is the same as the word punishment, because listening to these terrible jokes is pun-ishment itself! (No pun intended!) How can no pun intended be used in a sentence?

In our review, we said Episode 4 is “flawless… embodying the game’s road-trip DNA with humor, brutal thrills, and setting up an arc that should be dreaded by the most hardened of viewers.” Now, when someone says "NO PUN INTENDED", this means that they are not "playing on words". The speaker wants you to take the statement as it is. There is no hidden meaning or sarcasm in what he/she is trying to say. The following puns are known to have come from this book when Ellie announces the book's title in the Pittsburgh chapter.

So a pun is a joke that makes a play on words. So you say 'no pun intended' when you accidentally used a word in a sentence and is usually followed with a laugh from the other. Hopefully this isn't too complicated for you; this is actually a great question that a lot of native speakers probably don't think about much. You will just understand more, the more you are exposed to it in real life conversations/situations etc.I’m sure a lot of people would agree that we live in strange times. But do they have to be so strange that Area 51 is making headlines? And what’s this about fish the look like aliens. September’s Words in the News explain all. There are many diverse influences on the way that English is used across the world today. We look at some of the ways in which the language is changing. Read our series of blogs to find out more. When someone says no pun intended, however, it is when they say something that could be taken to have two meanings; an obvious one, and a slightly "off" interpretation; and they want you to know they are not making an intentional play on words and want you to take what they said to be the obvious meaning: PUN" is known to be "a play on words". "PUN" is a humorous way of using a word or phrase. It involves words with similar or identical sounds but with totally different meanings.

Two rivals eating a big steak at an eating competition will have a lot of beef between them, no pun intended.There is even a competition for pun creation, the O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships. In this competition, punslingers (a pun on gunslingers) compete against each other to win. In one category, they present as many excellent puns as they can in 90 seconds, and in the other, competitors go head to head to create puns on a given topic in four rounds of single-elimination heats. The competition has existed since 1977 in Austin, Texas. In 2020, the competition went virtual due to the “pundemic.”