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Corsinet.com
Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
Word Games Software
Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay
Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
Condit's Linguistical Predicament
Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
Stink Pink
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
Language Fun
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
The Tate Family Members
Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
Science Wordplay
Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.
Piece of Pi MadLibs
Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
The Mother of All Excuses Place
Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes.
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
Ms-Sam-Antics
Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
Loquacious Lipograms
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
Faulkner or Machine Translation?
A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
Fun With Words
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties
Definition of this style of play on words, a collection of original and previously-known examples, and links to other collections.
Lost in Translation
See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
Dave's Fun Words
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
Funny Names Site
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions
Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
Untruisms and One-Trick Words
Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
Scorpio Tales
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
Dictionary Of Wordplay
A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
The Word Spy
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
A Flock of Segers
Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies.
Word Masher
Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary.
Bovilexics.com
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
Vocal Names Riddles
Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
Before and After
The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
Wordage: The Game of Words
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
Similes Galore
A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
Thinking on Words
A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
Euler's Day Off
Rearrange a five-by-five grid of letters to form words in crossword fashion. There is a daily puzzle with no registration.
Family Travel Games
A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
Fun-with-words.com
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
Funnyname.com
A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
Gadzillion Things to Think About
10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
Sayings and Rhetoric
Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
Stupid Questions
Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
Word Soup Without Vowels
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.
Phobias
Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Sources of the Word Yahoo
Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
Humour Articles
Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
Keepers of Lists
A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.
National Public Radio
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
The Collective Noun Page
Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
Opundo
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
Dislexicon Word Generator
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
SadMan Software: Wordplay
Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
Text Messages
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
Unscramble.net
Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
Vocab Vitamins
A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
Wireless Power Word Game
Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
The Fictionary
Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
Wit Words
A dictionary of ficticious words.
Word-Jumble.com
Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
Wordorium
A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
Word Skit
Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
Answers to Rhetorical Questions
Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
You Grok
Use the clues to determine the subject of the puzzle. Inspired by Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land.”
"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head."
How to say this phrase in various languages.
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