Chez Chesler

Over on the Volokh conspiracy they were talking about zeugmas and syllepses.  If I have it right, zeugma is any yoking in a parallelism (I went to work by bus and by bike) while a syllepsis has a mismatch (She blew my nose, and then she blew my mind.)

What is the word for a word that can be split two ways?  For instance:

• Is Petsmart "Pets mart" or "Pet smart".
• On Arrested Development, the combined Analyst and Therapist was called the AnalRapist.
• The site penisland wasn't about stationery, it was about penes.
• Is the online world Runescape "Rune scape" or "Run escape"?
• I used to work in Billerica - when I use that as a user name, people think it's Bill Erica. 

Labels: language, rhetoric, syllepsis, volokh, zeugma