Archive for the ‘Rhyme’ Category
June 10, 2016
Passed on from Facebook posters by way of Chris Waigl, this storefront, with comments from readers about the store name Kum & Go:
(Note the use of rhyme and alliteration in the follow-ups.)
Another chapter in the annals of dubious and unfortunate names on this blog. In this case, you might have thought that a double entendre was intentional, a bit of playful naming to catch your eye and stick in your memory. But the company’s official story maintains otherwise, so (apparently) it’s only accidentally risible.
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December 21, 2015
The Rhymes With Orange from the 19th, with a play on -ocus words:
And the place where the group meets is the Hocus Pocus Focus Locus. And the flower that blooms in that place is the Hocus Pocus Focus Locus Crocus.
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Posted in Language play, Linguistics in the comics, Rhyme | 1 Comment »
July 25, 2015
Heard recently as music accompanying an NPR show: Cab Calloway performing “Everybody Eats at My House”, rhyming (or half-rhyming) food names and personal names, beginning:
(1) Have a banana, Hannah
Try the salami, Tommy
Get with the gravy, Davy
Everybody eats when they come to my house
(Four-line verses, with three that rhyme food names with personal names, plus a constant final line. The verse form should probably be called a Calloway.) (more…)
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December 9, 2014
Today’s Zippy, on music, in the paper, with rhyming names:
The top news in the paper, with diatonic vs. atonal piano music; arena hip hop, Iggy Azalea (more hip hop), and Cole Porter; Lloyd Ackroyd, Mel Snell, Leo Prilaux, and Dean Nerveen (playing “Begin the Beguine”).
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October 29, 2014
Two recent examples of cartoonists playing with language: a Zippy with a cascade of rhyming invented names, and some outrageous puns by cartoonist Nina Paley. The Zippy:
(#1)
This will lead us to some entertaining half-rhymes.
Then a t-shirt by cartoonist Nina Paley with an outrageous pun:
(#2)
This will lead to another of Paley’s Jewish puns.
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Posted in Language play, Linguistics in the comics, Pronunciation, Puns, Rhyme | 4 Comments »
May 18, 2014
Five items, several of which lead to more complex topics: a Harry Bliss cartoon that I caught, reprinted, in the Funny Times for May; a Zippy on art forgery; a One Big Happy with a kid eggcorn; a Zits with alliteration and rhyme (and the sexual marketplace); and a Rhymes With Orange on consonants and vowels.
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Posted in Alliteration, Ambiguity, Art/lit/music/film, Idioms, Language play, Linguistics in the comics, Phonology, Pop culture, Rhyme, Social life, Spelling | 3 Comments »
