Learn the English Phrases 'no pun intended' and 'pun intended'

Read along to practice your English and to learn the phrases "no pun intended" and "pun intended"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase no pun intended. Now, first, I should explain what a pun is. A pun is when you say something and it's funny because maybe one of the words has two meanings. So sometimes you say something and you realize after you say it that it's funny. I could say something like this, I'm going to go out on the river in my kayak and I'll probably end up bobbing up and down, no pun intended. Because my name is Bob and we have a verb to bob. After I said it, I might realize that it's funny. If I'm going to go in my kayak, it's likely that I'm going to bob up and down, no pun intended. So I didn't realize it was going to be a play on words until after I said it.

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Now we also have the phrase pun intended. If I was to say, I'm going to go out in my kayak today, I'm going to bob up and down, pun intended. It means that I realized that what I was going to say was going to be funny because of the play on words. By the way, a play on words is when words have two meanings and it ends up being a little bit funny.

So to review when there's no pun intended. So if I was to say, right now, this is going to be a plain English lesson, and then I hear a plane flying over because the word plain and plane sound the same, I could say no pun intended. This is just going to be a plain English lesson, no pun intended. And then if I knew that the words were funny before I said it, I would say pun intended. Hopefully that made some sense. I do highly recommend you look up the meaning of both those phrases on the Internet so that you're 100% sure.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from I'm just going to say nghivotan, I don't have a lot of time. Your shorts are so helpful. Thank you, Bob. My response I'm glad you're enjoying them. They are meant to be a bite sized lesson that is easy to watch and re watch. Have a great day.

So yeah, I don't often talk about why I do these lessons, but they started a long time ago because I was waiting for my kids to get in the van before school. So I would get a up, I would have breakfast, I would get ready to go to work, and then because I drive my kids to school, I would wait and I thought, hey, I have a phone and I have a few extra minutes here. Why don't I just teach a quick little English phrase?

And then they progressed from there to be about four minutes long, usually give or take a few seconds. And so the point of this was twofold eventually. One to teach you a couple of phrases, but two to give you kind of like an insight into my life where I'm speaking candidly about things I'm doing as I go through my week or go through my day. A little bit more of contact for you with a native English speaker who's talking in the way they normally talk and showing you things that they normally do.

So that's what this has evolved into, a nice little short four minute lesson twice a week where you can learn a couple of phrases and you can hear me ramble on about everyday things like, for instance, two days of school are done now. I'm actually shooting this on a Wednesday. I know you're watching it on a Friday because I got to get ahead of my work. We have market tomorrow and Friday is rather a busy day as well. But yeah, I'm shooting this a bit early. I lost my train of thought there.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this little lesson where there were a few puns about me bobbing in the river. I hope that made some sense. What was the second pun? Oh, the one about the plane. Yeah, there was a plane in the air. So I don't know. I don't know if I'm making sense. But thank you for watching these short lessons. Thank you for leaving comments, and I hope you're having a good day. I'll see you next week with another short English lesson. Bye.

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[tammytsang]

Thank you Bob for this video which is like a part of my ‘ breakfast’ for my soul. Have a great weekend with your family!

[Aerosmith]

You do make sense! I am away from home so I can not watch your streaming live but I do it afterward. Thank you ❤

[mengyingzhang-uzcg]

From my point of view, your rambling about your life is definitely one of the highlights of your video, and today I learned a new phrase "give or take a few seconds" in the latter part. Have a nice day.

[verygood]

Your expressions in videos and your conversations are easy for me to absorb as an English learner. I'm a new subscriber, but I'm going to be a die-hard fan! Thank you so much!!

[Elenita_felt]

So nice lesson 😊 thank you dear teacher Bob

[Denis_Shakhmatov]

Thanks for your bite-sized lessons, Bob! What do you call a teacher who loves technology? A “byte”-sized educator

[jcedArtem]

This is a super handy type of lessons! These phrases you teach is very hard to find on the internet and be sure it's really used in daily life. Extremely handy and valuable! Helps soo much! And the length... Is just right! Thanks a lot!

[KonstantinEgorovSpb]

Pleasant ramblings, Bob! The moments when you lose your train of thoughts make them natural🙂And Thanks for the insight, the benefits are manifold:from beefing up our vocab to feeding off your optimism and energy🤝🌈♥️

[CanalFeLandert]

Hi Teacher. I’m from Amazon and greatful for the leason. In brazilian language, especially in informal conversartions we use a lot of pun. And, It's good to learn this way of talking /thinking in english because it helps to reproduce our personality in a non-native language.

[mohdags]

You know, Mr. Bob, usually I can think of a comment right when I'm done watching your video, but this time my brain was just going too slow, so I thought I'd stick around and read the comments until something comes to me. Almost every single one of them made me smile in a way, and this made me think, "What a nice bunch Mr. Bob has gathered on his channel!" Just remember, when we say "congratulations!" be it on the 100k here or the 2M on your other channel, we're not simply saying that because of the number, we're rather congratulating you on having this nice group of people around you. What a lucky person you are, Bob the Canadian!🥰

[MRfisheri]

Wow Bob got contacts to get a plane flying above for a video. Puntastic! 😂

[silviaestevez]

Hey Bob, I've been on vacation, so now I'm catching up on your videos. I really love your short English lessons. I can see that the point of making these videos is fully accomplished. We learn a couple of phrases, of course, but the most important part is when you talk naturally, the way you talk with a friend. That way, we are learning without even realizing it. I feel as if a friend is talking to me with you.❤

[胡斯乱想]

Hello, Bob! Nice to meet you. Maybe this is the first time for me to watch your video. Actually because I was searching the phrase walk the walk, and I notice your video, click in and find your videos help me a lot. I major in English so I must master it. Recently, I am doing accumulation of English phrases and expressions. So I believe with your help I will make it!

[unsalhakanuysal]

Hi teacher Bob! 🖐️😎
Every success story starts with a simple step. How lucky that you took that step by following the thought that came to your mind while waiting in the car that day. I am pleased to have the opportunity to know you and to witness your success story. You inspire us all as a concrete example that consistent and continuous work will bring success. Thank you so much for your hard work! 👋😊🌹💐♥️

[GianlucaMariaLecchi]

❤you are simply the best . Your chunks of real life and real teaching are delightful

[nghivotan]

Thank you for choosing my comment Bob. Your lessons are amazing, they come out naturally and feel so comfortable. Thank again ❤❤❤

[MariaCeliaZamorano-nebl]

BOB !!!, Your SHORTS VIDEOS are so useful !, and I learn a lot with them, they 're funny, and interesting, at the same time, SO I'm looking foward to watching them😊😊😊 !! ( CELIA FROM ARGENTINA 🇦🇷)

[mohdags]

Wow! Bob was really quick on the draw with that plane/plain pun! Wait, maybe he just added the sound and prepared what to say in advance! Was I too quick to jump to that conclusion?! 🤔🛩🔊

[jessicademelo]

Hello Bob! Jéssica from Brazil here!
A curiosity: every time you say 'pun', it's a pun in brazilian portuguese, because it sounds like 'pum' (means a fart in PT BR).
I really enjoy the way you teach and I always share with my students your videos!
Thank you / Muito obrigada! :)

[MohamedKhaled-qedn]

Hey Bob u said that u would help me with school phrases the other day and I’m still waiting for it so I thought I’d remind u in case you’ve forgotten 😮