How to write out words for wordplay
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Our church had to stay baroque and afloat not b-roke and awash.
baroque and broke wordplay here: not sure how to write out bahroke meaning broke
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It is normal to use a hyphen.
I see it all the time.
- For puns/jokes.
- For academic writing where the purpose is to emphasize etymology (when the crux of the argument requires redefining or reemphasizing certain words).
- For political writing to focus on certain meanings.
- And just plain old dialect to show how a character is pronouncing a word.
Changing the spelling of a word to render the phonetics as needed is also acceptable in certain contexts. Though in this specific example, I'd prefer "bah-roke" to "bahroke."
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