Today’s Bizarro: Grotesque, but then the strip is called Bizarro. The pun turns on word division: wi-fi /waj faj/ vs. wife eye /wayf aj/; compare I scream vs. ice cream. (There are also prosodic differences, which, however, are variable along several dimensions.) At a phonemic level, then, the two words are segmentally identical, making a … Continue reading Today’s dreadful pun