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A pune or a play on words is often spoken by Discworld characters when they tell a not very funny joke based on word play.

One particular pune that appears a lot on the [[Discworld]] is [[A leopard can't change his shorts]].

Named after the founder of the [[Fools Guild]] one [[Jean-Paul Pune]] who, in his ''magnum opus'', [[Essay on a form of wit]] devotes 160,000 words to defining the Five Great Classes and seventy-three sub-classes of the Pune or play on words, which all students at the [[Fools' Guild]] are expected to commit to memory on pain of pain.

==Annotation==

The very name Pune is a pun, or play on words, on the [[Roundworld]] word ''pun''.

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