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A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia Open in a new browser window  
   Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
   http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html
Fun-with-words.com Open in a new browser window  
   Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
   http://www.fun-with-words.com/
Stink Pink Open in a new browser window  
   Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
   http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html
Piece of Pi MadLibs Open in a new browser window  
   Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
   http://madlibs.freeservers.com/
The Collective Noun Page Open in a new browser window  
   Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
   http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/
Phobias Open in a new browser window  
   Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
   http://www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt
Wireless Power Word Game Open in a new browser window  
   Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
   http://www.wirelesspower.com/
Wordage: The Game of Words Open in a new browser window  
   Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
   http://www.cmcom.com/wordage/
SadMan Software: Wordplay Open in a new browser window  
   Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
   http://www.simes.clara.co.uk/programs/wordplay.htm
"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." Open in a new browser window  
   How to say this phrase in various languages.
   http://yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html
Humour Articles Open in a new browser window  
   Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
   http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm
Sources of the word Yahoo Open in a new browser window  
   Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
   http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/yahoo1.html
Language Fun Open in a new browser window  
   Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
   http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun
Dictionary Of Wordplay Open in a new browser window  
   A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
   http://wordplay.narod.ru/
Text Messages Open in a new browser window  
   A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
   http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html
Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay Open in a new browser window  
   Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
   http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/bo.html
Opundo Open in a new browser window  
   Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
   http://www.opundo.com
The Word Spy Open in a new browser window  
   Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
   http://wordspy.com
Dave's Fun Words Open in a new browser window  
   Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
   http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
Fun With Words Open in a new browser window  
   Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
   http://rinkworks.com/words
Loquacious Lipograms Open in a new browser window  
   Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
   http://phrontistery.50megs.com/lipogram.html
The Hooter List Open in a new browser window  
   Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
   http://www.joebobbriggs.com/list/hooterlist.txt
Gadzillion Things to Think About Open in a new browser window  
   10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
   http://www.gadzillionthings.net/
LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions Open in a new browser window  
   Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
   http://users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/rhetoric.htm
Answers to Rhetorical Questions Open in a new browser window  
   Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
   http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind.html
Stupid Questions Open in a new browser window  
   Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
   http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9006/stupid.html
Scorpio Tales Open in a new browser window  
   Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
   http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
WordBall Open in a new browser window  
   The viewer competes against a computer in a baseball-like word-game.
   http://www.aquiz.com/WordBall/WordBall.htm
Name Wordplay Open in a new browser window  
   Example: If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.
   http://www.jokes2go.com/lists/list50.html
Sanskrit Humor Open in a new browser window  
   Wordplay in, about or involving Sanskrit.
   http://sanskrit.bhaarat.com/Dale/Humor.html
Obfuscations of Celebrated Oracular Utterings Open in a new browser window  
   Rewords familiar phrases, idioms, and aphorisms with grandiose, academic words and descriptions.
   http://www.obfuscations.com
Condit's Linguistical Predicament Open in a new browser window  
   Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
   http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/condit.html
Lost in Translation Open in a new browser window  
   See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
   http://tashian.com/multibabel
The Tate Family Members Open in a new browser window  
   Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
   http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm
Untruisms and One-Trick Words Open in a new browser window  
   Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
   http://users.ox.ac.uk/~diab0011/ignore.html
Word-Jumble.com Open in a new browser window  
   Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
   http://www.word-jumble.com
Ms-Sam-Antics Open in a new browser window  
   Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
   http://mssamantics.us
Word Games Software Open in a new browser window  
   Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
   http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html
Bovilexics.com Open in a new browser window  
   Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
   http://www.bovilexics.com/
Vocab Vitamins Open in a new browser window  
   A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
   http://www.vocabvitamins.com/
Word Soup Without Vowels Open in a new browser window  
   A 12x13 diagram contains various letters in it--without vowels. Find as many words in the diagram and e-mail in your answers. Also Spanish-oriented.
   http://www.geocities.com/gabrudos/sopa.htm
Similes Galore Open in a new browser window  
   A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
   http://www.datafilebank.com/similesgalore/
Funny Names Site Open in a new browser window  
   Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
   http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/
Word Masher Open in a new browser window  
   Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary.
   http://www.aurete.com/wordmasher
List of Silly Names Open in a new browser window  
   Includes towns, marriages, silly science and universities. Accepts submissions.
   http://www.silly-names.co.uk/
Science Wordplay Open in a new browser window  
   Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.
   http://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/~wise/wise187/janfeb2001/weblinks/physics_jokes.html
Faulkner or Machine Translation? Open in a new browser window  
   A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
   http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~simkin/sounds_like_faulkner.html
National Public Radio Open in a new browser window  
   New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
   http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
Thinking on Words Open in a new browser window  
   A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
   http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printthread.php?threadid=17649
Vocal Names Riddles Open in a new browser window  
   Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
   http://www.brainteaser-world.com/puzzles/vocal-words/vocal-words-archives.htm
Before and After Open in a new browser window  
   The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
   http://www.bridge.net/~labush/lalmwk20.htm
Family Travel Games Open in a new browser window  
   A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
   http://www.familytravelgames.com
Sayings and Rhetoric Open in a new browser window  
   Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
   http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/JOKES/sayings.html
A Flock of Segers Open in a new browser window  
   Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies.
   http://www.aflockofsegers.com
The Fictionary Open in a new browser window  
   Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
   http://www.witwords.com/fictionary.cfm
Dislexicon Word Generator Open in a new browser window  
   Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
   http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc
Euler's Day Off Open in a new browser window  
   Rearrange a five-by-five grid of letters to form words in crossword fashion. There is a daily puzzle with no registration.
   http://www.eulersdayoff.org
Wordorium Open in a new browser window  
   A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
   http://www.wordorium.blogspot.com

Last Updated: 2005-01-14 20:34:50


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