On English Puns

My fascination with the English language has a lot to do with the fact that it allows me to relish the various puns that one can create in it by using the same word in more than one sense to refer to sometimes quite unrelated entitites. Here are three of my favourite examples.

(A) Mind Matters is the title of a website. The beautiful thing about this title is that it can be 'read' in more than one way. First, you can take the word 'mind' as a noun and the word 'matters' as a verb so that it means : the mind is an important 'thing'; second, you can take 'mind' as adjectival to the noun 'matters', so that this time you read : topics associated with the mind.

(B) Trojan Horses From Paris is the name of an essay. Now if you are a lover of Greek epics, you can read this in a straight-forward manner : Paris is the name of the King who stole Helen and started the bloody mess which led to the Trojan horse being used in the battle over Troy. However, this essay is actually a criticism of French postmodernist theory, and 'Paris' literally refers to the capital of France and not to the Homeric anti-hero.

(C) Class Struggles is the name of a sociological report. If you are a Marxist, you shall immediately start thinking of socio-economic classes and all their clashes. However, the word 'class' in this report literally means school-classes, and 'struggles' to the difficulties of children in moving from one lower school-class to a higher one. A beautiful pun, really.