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60 sites in Wordplay
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
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Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/word...
A Flock of Segers
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Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies.
http://www.aflockofsegers.com
Answers to Rhetorical Questions
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Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradg...
Before and After
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The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
http://www.bridge.net/~labush/lalmwk2...
Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay
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Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay''s classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/b...
Bovilexics.com
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Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
http://www.bovilexics.com/
Condit's Linguistical Predicament
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Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/c...
Corsinet.com
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Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
http://corsinet.com/
Dave's Fun Words
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Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
Dictionary Of Wordplay
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A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
http://wordplay.narod.ru/
Dislexicon Word Generator
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Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/disl...
Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties
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Definition of this style of play on words, a collection of original and previously-known examples, and links to other collections.
http://scraps.divinest-sense.com/fun/...
Euler's Day Off
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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
Family Travel Games
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A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
http://www.familytravelgames.com
Faulkner or Machine Translation?
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A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulk...
Fun With Words
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Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
http://rinkworks.com/words
Fun-with-words.com
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Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
http://www.fun-with-words.com/
Funny Names Site
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Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/
Gadzillion Things to Think About
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10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
http://www.gadzillionthings.net/
Humour Articles
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Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv...
Language Fun
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Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/langu...
LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions
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Questions designed to open one''s mind, even if no answer is expected.
http://users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/r...
List of Silly Names
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Includes towns, marriages, silly science and universities. Accepts submissions.
http://www.silly-names.co.uk/
Loquacious Lipograms
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Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html
Lost in Translation
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See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
http://tashian.com/multibabel
Ms-Sam-Antics
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Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
http://mssamantics.us
National Public Radio
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New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puz...
Obfuscations of Celebrated Oracular Utterings
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Rewords familiar phrases, idioms, and aphorisms with grandiose, academic words and descriptions.
http://www.obfuscations.com
Opundo
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Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
http://www.opundo.com
Phobias
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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/Fun...
Piece of Pi MadLibs
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Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
http://madlibs.freeservers.com/
SadMan Software: Wordplay
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Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
http://www.simes.clara.co.uk/programs...
Sayings and Rhetoric
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Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/...
Science Wordplay
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Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.
http://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/~wise...
Scorpio Tales
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Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithe...
Similes Galore
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A book of the author''s own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
http://www.datafilebank.com/similesga...
Sources of the word Yahoo
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Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns...
Stink Pink
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Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html
Stupid Questions
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Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hi...
Text Messages
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A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html
The Collective Noun Page
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Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as ''a murder of crows'' and ''a pomposity of professors''.
http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/
The Fictionary
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Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
http://www.witwords.com/fictionary.cfm
The Hooter List
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Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
http://www.joebobbriggs.com/list/hoot...
The Tate Family Members
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Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate...
The Word Spy
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Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
http://wordspy.com
Thinking on Words
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A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printt...
Unscramble.net
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Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
http://www.unscramble.net
Untruisms and One-Trick Words
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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/ignor...
Vocab Vitamins
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A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
http://www.vocabvitamins.com/
Vocal Names Riddles
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Guess a celebrity''s name which is actually made of various words.
http://www.brainteaser-world.com/puzz...
Wireless Power Word Game
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Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
http://www.wirelesspower.com/
Word Games Software
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Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html
Word Masher
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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
Word Skit
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Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
http://www.wordskit.com/
Word Soup Without Vowels
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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/sop...
Word-Jumble.com
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Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
http://www.word-jumble.com
Wordage: The Game of Words
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Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
http://www.cmcom.com/wordage/
Wordorium
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A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
http://www.wordorium.blogspot.com
You Grok
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Use the clues to determine the subject of the puzzle. Inspired by Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land.”
http://www.yougrok.com
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How to say this phrase in various languages.
http://yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html
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