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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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