Phonological Similarities Between Paranomy And Lessons

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4.2.2. 3.Paranomy: slight differences in both spelling and sounds Phonological similarity of the words and the morphological structure is the characteristic of paronymic puns (Marjamaki, 2001).The examples are the words 'lesson ' and 'lessen ', 'tortoise ' and 'taught us ', 'big ' and 'pig ', and 'tickler ' and 'tickled '.
SL Text 6: "And how many hours a day did you do lessons? Said Alice, in hurry to change the subject.
"Ten hours the first day, said the mock turtle, nine in the next, and so on.
"What a curious plan! exclaimed Alice.
"That’s the reason they 're called lessons, the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day" (Alice in Wonderland (1992: 81).
TL Text 6:
قالت أليس بسرعة لكي تغير الموضوع: وكم ساعة في اليوم كنتم تدرسون؟
قال ذكر السلحفاة الزائف : عشر ساعات في اليوم الأول ، تسع في الثاني وهكذا دواليك.
قالت أليس باستغراب : يا لها من خطة غريبة !
فأشار الغريفين بالقول:" لهذا السبب تسمى دروسا اذ هي تنقص من يوم الى يوم" (أليس في بلاد العجائب، الفصل التاسع، 188). In the example(6) , the Turtle explains to Alice that it used to go to school for fewer and fewer hours every day, according to the Turtle, lessons are called "lessons" because they "lessen" every day, so it had classes for ten hours the first day, nine hours the second, and so on. Alice naturally asks what happened on the eleventh day. The play on word is quiet obvious since the Mock Turtle uses lesson (noun) to mean a period of time when you learn or teach something