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Transpositional pun

Okay, kiddo, have you ever played with different letters and words to make silly sentences or jokes? That's kind of what a transpositional pun is.

Let's say you have a word like "learn". Now, let's switch two letters around to make a new word: "renal". See how those two words sound similar but have different meanings? That's a transpositional pun!

It's like a little game where we switch letters around and see what new words we can come up with that still make sense. And sometimes those new words can be really funny or clever!
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