Despite puns being found virtually everywhere, and not just in the English language, the socially acceptable response still seems to be overwhelmingly negative or at best ambivalent. Why? We talk to linguist Chi Luu, author of JSTOR Daily's Lingua Obscura column, and two scholars of puns Richard Lederer and Catherine Bates to find out.

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two decades as a catholic and I never realized that Matthew 16:18 is a pun?? the @JSTOR_Daily podcast pilot is already taking me to school

— Ellie Hill (@ellenohill) May 5, 2016

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