But there's always room for Punorama, the punning contest for amateurs who admire the headline writers' art.

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Sold in dime stores, the stickers satirized popular consumer products by punning on their names and tweaking their package design.

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The Roman orators Cicero and Quintilian believed that "paronomasia", the Greek term for punning, was a sign of intellectual suppleness and rhetorical skill.

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If the punning survives the translators, perhaps the same will be true as the film opens now in Britain and in America next year.

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The rules are straightforward - we choose a story which has been in the news, and invite you to create an original punning headline for it.

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This is why punning is the language of the night.

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Because of a punning coincidence between his name and "nieve, " the Spanish for "snow, " Neve commissioned Murillo to paint two lunettes, semicircular murals depicting the founding in Rome of Santa Maria Maggiore the legend that the Virgin appeared to a Roman patrician in a dream, and told him to build the church on a hill where he'd find snow in August.

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