Editing Rebus (section)

==Historical examples==
[[File:Frederick-rebus.png|thumb|250px|A rebus sent to [[Voltaire]] by [[Frederick the Great]] – ''Supper tomorrow at [[Sanssouci Palace|Sanssouci]]?'']]
[[File:Owl-dom rebus.png|thumb|Bishop [[Hugh Oldham|Oldham's]] owl-dom rebus as carved in the wall of his chantry in [[Exeter Cathedral]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Boutell |first=Charles |author-link=Charles Boutell |title=Heraldry, Historical and Popular |url=https://archive.org/details/heraldryhistori00boutgoog |edition=2nd |year=1863 |publisher=Winsor and Newton |location=London |page=[https://archive.org/details/heraldryhistori00boutgoog/page/n166 118]}}</ref>]]

* It is reported<ref>{{cite book |last=Danesi |first=Marcel |author-link=Marcel Danesi |title=The Puzzle Instinct: The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=47PHOZBdCLYC |edition=1st |year=2002 |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=Indiana, USA |page=61|isbn=0253217083 }}</ref> that when [[Voltaire]] was the guest of [[Frederick the Great]] at [[Sanssouci Palace]], they exchanged puzzle notes. Frederick sent over a page with two picture blocks on it: two hands below the letter P, and then the number 100 below a picture of a handsaw, all followed by a question mark. Voltaire replied with: '''Ga!'''

:Both messages were rebuses in the French language: ''deux mains sous Pé à cent sous scie?'' "two hands under 'p' at [one] hundred under saw" = ''demain souper à Sanssouci?'' "supper tomorrow at Sanssouci?"); reply: ''Gé grand, A petit!'' "big 'G', small 'a'!" (= ''j'ai grand appétit!'' "I am very hungry!").
* The early sixteenth-century [[Bishop of Exeter]], [[Hugh Oldham]], adopted the owl as his personal device. It bore a scroll in its beak bearing the letters D.O.M., forming a rebus based on his surname, which would probably have been pronounced at the time as ''owl-dom''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/celebs/philanthropy1.html |title=Manchester Celebrities – Philanthropy, Philosophy & Religion – Bishop Hugh Oldham |publisher=ManchesterUK |access-date=2011-01-03 |last=Moss |first=John |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116153116/http://manchester2002-uk.com/celebs/philanthropy1.html |archive-date=16 January 2013 }}</ref>
* The nineteenth-century French sculptor [[Jean-Pierre Dantan]] would place rebuses on the [[Socle (architecture)|socles]] of his caricature busts to identify the subject. For example, [[Victor Hugo]] was an axe (''hache'' in French, which sounds like the French pronunciation of "H") + UG + crossed bones (''os'', sounding like "O"). [[Hector Berlioz]] was represented by the letters BER low on the socle, with a bed (''lit'', for "li") comparatively high on the socle (to mean "''haut''", the French for high, pronounced with a silent "h" and "t" and the digraph "au" sounding like "O").<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thearttribune.com/spip.php?page=docbig&id_document=2120 |title=The Art Tribune – ''Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800–1869), Louis-Hector Berlioz, 1833'' |publisher=Thearttribune.com |access-date=2019-01-14}}</ref>
* Rebus Bibles such as ''[[A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible]]'' were popular in the late eighteenth century for teaching children to read the Bible.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri014.html |title=A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible |work=American Treasures of the Library of Congress |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=31 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009020545/http://loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri014.html |archive-date=9 October 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Franciscans]] interacting with [[Nahuatl]]-speaking groups found that the Cholultecans used rebus principles to record information in Latin. The Cholultecans learned the Pater Noster or Lord's Prayer with the aid of drawing pictures of a ''pantli'' (flag or banner) to represent ''pater'' and a picture of a prickly pear, ''nochtli,'' for ''noster''. This practice was seen as a strength of the people's pictographic literacy.<ref>Mendieta, G. de (1971). ''Historia Eclesiastica Indiana''[A religios History of the Indians]. Mexico, DF: Editorial Porrua (Original work published 1945)</ref>