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A pun made by changing the letters of a word, especially the initial letter.

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  • Since the Deacon told that story I have had a paragram about another parrot; one that lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, five years ago.
  • Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,433 not to speak of...
  • Fiat juflitia — a paragram for an hangman's cart. '
  • By the way, talking of dresses puts me in mind of a paragram that came the other day, about
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