Cute Grammar Pun

The pun is in the caption:

Trouble is “should’ve” is pronounced the same as “should of,” so be careful!

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Aren’t we supposed to say puns are bad if they’re good?

The last post was all work, so this post is all play.

Okay, let’s go for two:

Not even a lesson with it. Guess I’m being lazy.

Maybe I’ll do something worthwhile next time…

Not much content in today’s post, especially since this doesn’t apply to me: I have no trouble correcting grammar. When asked.

Hmm. You might say that it should be “peoples’ grammar,” but I suspect he talks to one person at a time; justifying use of the singular. Maybe. What do you think?

But they’re about language, so I guess it’s okay. First the pun. It’s the last word in the comic.

And that leads to the less jokey joke, use of a figure of speech that we call alliteration. Alliteration is when you start two or more words with the same letter. The Peter Piper tongue twister is a good example of alliteration. The fewer non-matching words you have, the better the alliteration is considered to be, and the non-matching words should never be emphasized. So this comic is a decent example of alliteration.

It’s still bad, though. But I like it. Thank you, Stephen Beals.