Antonia  [More info] Hello! what kind of humor is rye sense of humour? Thanks Antonia Joined on Fri, Mar 11 2005 Contributing Member 1,266

	+1 julielai  [More info] I've heard of a dry sense of humor and a wry sense of humor. Haven't heard of a "rye sense of humor", though it can be a pun in a very special context. Perhaps others have a different take on this. Edited to add: I've just found more than 600 hits on google for "rye sense of humor", so surely it's used in some context. Perhaps others will be able to shed light on this. julielai Joined on Sun, Oct 24 2004 Senior Member 3,879 Just another blogger (http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/julie-lai)

	+1 pieanne  [More info] Must be "WRY", I think pieanne Joined on Thu, Jan 20 2005 South of France ...But I'm Belgian! Veteran Member 7,461 I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos...

	+1 Antonia  [More info] I guess it is a pun then, because it is in quotation marks. It's about a dish which usually involves rye bread, but there is no bread (because it is a special dietary dish), and that's why one has to have ''rye'' sense of humour. Thank you very much Antonia

	+1 abbie1948  [More info] Hi Antonia, It is spelled "WRY", but pronounced the same as 'rye'. You are said to have a wry sense of humour if you can show that you find a difficult or bad situation slightly amusing. abbie1948 Joined on Thu, Mar 24 2005 England Senior Member 2,657 Hope that helps. Abbie

	+1 Antonia  [More info] Thank you, abbie Yeah, I see it's a pun, and I can't translate that, so in this case, I can allow myself rather free translation. Antonia

	+1 abbie1948  [More info] It's not a pun on 'rye', Antonia. The adjective 'wry' literally means bent, twisted or pulled to one side. So I suppose you could say "he had a twisted sense of humour" abbie1948

	+1 Antonia  [More info] I'm obviously missing sth here, why did they write rye than?(sorry,I can be really slow sometimes;))) Antonia

	+1 MrPedantic  [More info] I've dredged through the first couple of pages of the 67 googles for 'rye sense of humour', and I'm sorry to say they all meant 'wry'. We must be charitable and assume that they did indeed originally write 'wry', but their spellchecks had an even wryer sense of humour than the assorted bloggers and posters in question and slyly, dryly miscorrected their spelling. What a pity. 'Rye sense of humour' wouldn't be a bad strapline for an article about a cheerful someone with a wheat allergy. MrP MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member 12,705 ...opella forensis / adducit febris...