Analyzing a Pun
Which two words does Carroll use to make a pun in
this passage?
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What is the point of the pun?
"And how many hours a day did you do lessons?" said
Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
"Ten hours the first day," said the Mock Turtle, "nine 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's Adventures in Wonderland,
Lewis Carroll