Archive of articles classified as' "Word Play"
Over-budget temple contractor shortens his chortens.
7/29/2010A chorten is a ceremonial structure containing Buddhist relics, better known as a stupa.
After carefully dismantling Chekhov’s gun, I
7/27/2010Chekhov’s gun is the literary technique whereby an element is introduced early in the story, but its significance does not become clear until later on.
Attempting haiku: / septendesyllabism / constrains my efforts.
1/26/2010(Haiku are seventeen-syllable poems, usually in a 5-7-5 grouping. Septende- is the prefix for seventeen.)