<Dl> <Dd> "We'll have to rehearse that," said the undertaker as the coffin fell out of the car . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> "We'll have to rehearse that," said the undertaker as the coffin fell out of the car . </Dd> <P> Another use of fossils is in using antonyms of unpaired words--"I was well - coiffed and sheveled," (back - formation from "disheveled"). </P> <P> Most writers engage in word play to some extent, but certain writers are particularly committed to, or adept at, word play as a major feature of their work . Shakespeare's "quibbles" have made him a noted punster . Similarly, P.G. Wodehouse was hailed by The Times as a "comic genius recognized in his lifetime as a classic and an old master of farce" for his own acclaimed wordplay . James Joyce, author of Ulysses, is another noted word - player . For example, in his Finnegans Wake Joyce's phrase "they were yung and easily freudened" clearly implies the more conventional "they were young and easily frightened"; however, the former also makes an apt pun on the names of two famous psychoanalysts, Jung and Freud . </P>

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