Today’s Mother Goose and Grimm: Mistaken anemone for mistaken identity. Phonologically distant, but interpretable because mistaken identity is an idiom, a formulaic expression, which is, moreover, appropriate to the context of the cartoon. On the anemone joke front, there’s this complicated double-pun that served as the subtitle for my paper with Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky on … Continue reading Anemone pun