I am the piercing shriek you utter when a ghost jumps from the dark. But pronounce my two words carefully on a hot July afternoon, and I become a cold dairy dessert scooped into a waffle cone. What sound am I?
A scream (I scream / ice cream)
Wordplay on 'scream' and the classic pun 'I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream'.
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