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I am trying to find something negative to say about the man – he smoked non-stop and absented himself sometimes in deafness, but he was, by the world’s standards as well as by my own, a very good person; extremely slow to anger, a punner and puzzler, a lover of languages, with great independence of mind.

It should come as no surprise, then, that “Winter Punderland” isn’t the first time Gunderson has tapped into his punner heritage during the holidays.

Somers, a consummate punner and a gifted storyteller whose witticisms were recorded in popular books of the time, was known for the kind of verbal dexterity that is one of the hallmarks of Williams syndrome, though it wouldn’t have been identified as such in the 16th century.

No point attempting a pay-off line after that, but Vine did reveal that the word for a compulsive punner is "paronomasiac".

Foundations are usually executed by excavators or navvies, and the tools and implements used are boning rods, level pegs, lines, spirit level, pickaxe, various shovels, wheel-barrow, rammer or punner, &c.