Word: paranourasia
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...Dartmouth speaks of the habit of punning as "paranourasia" and says : "The inveterate punster soon comes to regard words as mere symbols on which he is to strike the tinkling changes of his word-music; he takes all the beauty out of Homer's "winged words" by making them shuttlecocks which he is to bandy back and forth at the mere catch of sounds...
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