From Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky, who got it from the All Things Linguistic site (maintained by Gretchen McCulloch, who’s appeared several times on ths blog), this punning instance of the new Be Like Bill meme: (#1) The pun turns on an ambiguity in the transitive verb stress. From NOAD2: [with obj.] give emphasis to (a syllable … Continue reading Be like Schwa