Who Loves Tom Swift? — Nicholas C. Rossis

Posted on by Sumita Tah

No, Tom Swift is not a person. A Tom Swifty is a phrase in which a quoted sentence is linked by a pun to the manner in which it is attributed. The standard syntax is for the quoted sentence to be first, followed by the (humorous) description of the act of speaking. The hypothetical speaker […]

Who Loves Tom Swift? — Nicholas C. Rossis
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