Nuts and Bolts: typographical paranomasia.

 Oh, don't you just love grammarians?

(Don't answer that!)

I mean, what is the point of grammar, anyway? Isn't it something to do with clarity of meaning?

The reason I'm asking is that the rest of us call an example of typographic paranomasia a pun.

Still, I suppose if sticking long words together makes people feel clever...

Words Probably Not To Bother With Today: typographical paranomasia. The word paranomasia comes from the Greek word paronomazein, which means to call someone by slightly the wrong name. Para- means, well, almost anything you want it to mean, really, and onoma means name. The Greek word graphein is to do with writing, and the other Greek word tupos means type.