Editing Pun (section)

===Homophonic===
{{See also|Homophonic puns in Standard Chinese}}
[[File:BAABAAA black Jeep in Oakland, April 2021.jpg|thumb|right|A black Jeep with license plate BAABAAA – a pun on "[[Baa, Baa, Black Sheep]]"]]
A homophonic pun is one that uses word pairs which sound alike ([[homophones]]) but are not synonymous.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.elc.edu/how-very-pun-ny-of-you/|title=English Grammar Lesson – How very pun-ny of you! – ELC|date=2 August 2016|work=ELC – English Language Center|access-date=31 August 2017}}</ref> Walter Redfern summarized this type with his statement, "To pun is to treat homonyms as [[synonyms]]."<ref>''Puns'', Blackwell, London, 1984</ref> For example, in [[George Carlin]]'s phrase "atheism is a non-prophet institution", the word ''[[prophet]]'' is put in place of its homophone ''[[wikt:profit|profit]]'', altering the common phrase "[[non-profit organization|non-profit institution]]". Similarly, the joke "Question: Why do we still [[United States Army Europe#Cold War|have troops in Germany]]? Answer: To keep the [[Warsaw Pact|Russians]] in [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|Czech]]" relies on the aural ambiguity of the homophones ''[[wikt:check|check]]'' and ''[[wikt:Czech|Czech]]''. Often, puns are not strictly homophonic, but play on words of similar, not identical, sound as in the example from the ''[[Pinky and the Brain]]'' cartoon film series: "I think so, Brain, but if we give peas a chance, won't the lima beans feel left out?" which plays with the similar—but not identical—sound of ''peas'' and ''peace'' in the anti-war slogan "[[Give Peace a Chance]]".<ref>[[q:Pinky and the Brain|''See the citation on Wikiquote'']]</ref>