Is there a name for that form of joke, where you perceive a word inside another word?
The particular observation in the post title was made by Meade, reading about the son of a widow who hoped for succession rights to a rent-stabilized apartment.
ADDED: TV Tropes has a page titled "You Put the X in XY," which includes examples that are mostly really dumb, like "You put the itch in bitch."
The Kindle search tool is good (too good) at exposing these words within words because its search tool won't let you restrict the search to an actual word. For example, you'll have a hell of a time looking for a word like "hat," which appears in every "what" and "that." But I've made some delightful discoveries by accident this way.
October 21, 2013
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Is it a CON or are they ABLE to live on there?
There should be a word for that form of joke, but I don't know of one. Similarly, Meade said (you said) "Don't cry for me, Santiago", which is a similar form-- rattling out songs that have lyrics or rhythms close to what someone said. That's a disease, and I have it. Mostly Broadway tunes, alas. Related, perhaps, to the Cockney rhyming slang.
My favorite radio promo when I was a kid was "Putting the Lice in Alice in Chains"
Not sure what kind of joke that is but I once tried to take the "rude" out of erudite: link
On Twitter Charisma Carpenter was discussing her son when I asked if her son said to her CHAR IS MA!
I got the Atomic Eyeroll!
My favorite is: "They put the fun in dysfunctional".
Scunthorpe
"Putting the 'Twit' in 'Twitter' since [year here]."
Although it's a lot easier to do these when the sub-word comes first in the super-word.
Isn't that an inside joke?
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