Word of the Day

Paronomasia 

Definitions: 

1. Rhetoric. punning; the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning. 
2. Rhetoric. a pun. 

Citations:

 It was between Whitefield Street and the Tottenham Court Road, in a "heavenly Mews," as he liked to call it (for he had a characteristic weakness for philosophical paronomasia) that Casimir Lypiatt lived and worked.

 "He certainly tells awful jokes, though," she added. "His evident addiction to a particularly debased form of paronomasia is indeed a regrettable feature of his otherwise agreeable personality, " I replied.

Origin:

Paronomasia is a borrowing from Latin and can be traced to the Greek paronomázein meaning "to make a slight name-change." It entered English in the late 1500s.