PUNS IN SPANISH

 My Random House Dictionary defines pun as "the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words." The tallest building in town is the Library because it has thousands of stories, is a good example of one.  Pun, as a word, is common currency in colloquial English, but its Spanish equivalent is not. The average native speaker will not recognize the word retruécano, as the equivalent of pun. It is easier to say juego de palabras, although punning is part of everyday language. Let me give you a few examples and see if you can crack them:

- El médico le dijo al director del seminario que él también hacía curas. 

-La nariz le dijo al pañuelo al encontrarse con él: me suenas.

-A mi hijo la única fruta que le asusta es el coco.

- Un gato le preguntó a una pistola cómo estaba su gatillo.

-La leche le dijo al café que la estaba poniendo negra.