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Faulkner or Machine Translation?
A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.h...
Funnyname.com
A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
http://www.funnyname.com/
A Flock of Segers
Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies.
http://www.aflockofsegers.com
Wordorium
A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
http://www.wordorium.blogspot.com
Condit's Linguistical Predicament
Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/condit...
Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay
Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/bo.htm...
Untruisms and One-Trick Words
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.htm...
Sources of the Word Yahoo
Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/ya...
Gadzillion Things to Think About
10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
http://www.gadzillionthings.net/
Dictionary Of Wordplay
A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
http://wordplay.narod.ru/
Dislexicon Word Generator
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexico...
Humour Articles
Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/arti...
Fun With Words
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
http://rinkworks.com/words
Phobias
Article that lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
http://www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPho...
Opundo
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
http://www.opundo.com
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.
http://madtbone.tripod.com/
Wordage: The Game of Words
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
http://www.cmcom.com/wordage/
Word-Jumble.com
Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
http://www.word-jumble.com
Dave's Fun Words
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
Before and After
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
Vocal Names Riddles
Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
http://www.brainteaser-world.com/puzzles/v...
Thinking on Words
A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printthread...
Word Games Software
Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html
The Fictionary
Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
http://www.witwords.com/fictionary.cfm
Scorpio Tales
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
Sayings and Rhetoric
Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/JOKES...
Language Fun
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefu...
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.
http://www.eulersdayoff.org
"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head."
How to say this phrase in various languages.
http://yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html
You Grok
Use the clues to determine the subject of the puzzle. Inspired by Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land.”
http://www.yougrok.com
Text Messages
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html
Bovilexics.com
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
http://www.bovilexics.com/
Piece of Pi MadLibs
Featuring a collection of madlib stories and poetry.
http://madlibs.freeservers.com/
The Word Spy
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
http://wordspy.com
Wireless Power Word Game
Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
http://www.wirelesspower.com/
Keepers of Lists
A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.
http://www.keepersoflists.org/
National Public Radio
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
Stink Pink
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html
Family Travel Games
A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
http://www.familytravelgames.com
Funny Name Site
A collection of real and fictitious funny-sounding names.
http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/
Word Skit
Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
http://www.wordskit.com/
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.
http://www.geocities.com/gabrudos/sopa.htm
SadMan Software: Wordplay
Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
http://www.simes.clara.co.uk/programs/word...
Stupid Questions
Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9...
LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions
Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
http://users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/rhetor...
Loquacious Lipograms
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html
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.
http://www.aurete.com/wordmasher
Ms-Sam-Antics Daffynitions
Collection of daffynitions from contributors listed alphabetically and by subject.
http://mssamantics.us
Wit Words
A dictionary of ficticious words.
http://www.witwords.com
Corsinet.com
Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
http://corsinet.com/
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.
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.htm...
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.
http://scraps.divinest-sense.com/fun/tom-s...
Lost in Translation
See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
http://tashian.com/multibabel
Answers to Rhetorical Questions
Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind....
Fun-with-words.com
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
http://www.fun-with-words.com/
The Tate Family Members
Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm
The Collective Noun Page
Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/
Vocab Vitamins
Introduces an uncommon word or phrase each day, along with a definition. Includes archives, and a daily email service.
http://www.vocabvitamins.com/
Unscramble.net
Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
http://www.unscramble.net
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