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In the Tom Swiftie, the adverb (generally ending in "ly") that describes the way a person is saying something puns with what he or she says, as in the following example.
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An even more famous kind of adverbial pun is the Tom Swiftie, named after Tom Swift, the hero of a series of science fiction books by Edward Stratemeyer which debuted a hundred years ago.
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