- A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia - http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html
Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
- Fun-with-words.com - http://www.fun-with-words.com/
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
- Stink Pink - http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
- The Collective Noun Page - http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/
Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
- Phobias - http://www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt
Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
- Wordage: The Game of Words - http://www.cmcom.com/wordage/
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
- Humour Articles - http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm
Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
- Sources of the Word Yahoo - http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/yahoo1.html
Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
- Language Fun - http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
- Dictionary Of Wordplay - http://wordplay.narod.ru/
A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
- Text Messages - http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
- Opundo - http://www.opundo.com
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
- The Word Spy - http://wordspy.com
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
- Dave's Fun Words - http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
- Fun With Words - http://rinkworks.com/words
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
- The Hooter List - http://www.joebobbriggs.com/list/hooterlist.txt
Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
- Stupid Questions - http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9006/stupid.html
Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
- Scorpio Tales - http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
- Condit's Linguistical Predicament - http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/condit.html
Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
- Lost in Translation - http://tashian.com/multibabel
See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
- Untruisms and One-Trick Words - http://users.ox.ac.uk/~diab0011/ignore.html
Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
- Word-Jumble.com - http://www.word-jumble.com
Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
- Ms-Sam-Antics - http://mssamantics.us
Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
- Word Games Software - http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html
Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
- Bovilexics.com - http://www.bovilexics.com/
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
- Vocab Vitamins - http://www.vocabvitamins.com/
A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
- Word Soup Without Vowels - http://www.geocities.com/gabrudos/sopa.htm
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.
- Similes Galore - http://www.datafilebank.com/similesgalore/
A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
- Funny Names Site - http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
- Word Masher - http://www.aurete.com/wordmasher
Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary.
- List of Silly Names - http://www.silly-names.co.uk/
Includes towns, marriages, silly science and universities. Accepts submissions.
- Science Wordplay - http://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/~wise/wise187/janfeb2001/weblinks/physics_jokes.html
Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.
- National Public Radio - http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
- Thinking on Words - http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printthread.php?threadid=17649
A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
- Vocal Names Riddles - http://www.brainteaser-world.com/puzzles/vocal-words/vocal-words-archives.htm
Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
- Before and After - http://www.bridge.net/~labush/lalmwk20.htm
The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
- Family Travel Games - http://www.familytravelgames.com
A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
- Sayings and Rhetoric - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/JOKES/sayings.html
Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
- A Flock of Segers - http://www.aflockofsegers.com
Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies.
- The Fictionary - http://www.witwords.com/fictionary.cfm
Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
- Dislexicon Word Generator - http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
- Euler's Day Off - http://www.eulersdayoff.org
Rearrange a five-by-five grid of letters to form words in crossword fashion. There is a daily puzzle with no registration.
- Wordorium - http://www.wordorium.blogspot.com
A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
- Unscramble.net - http://www.unscramble.net
Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
- Corsinet.com - http://corsinet.com/
Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
- Loquacious Lipograms - http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
- Faulkner or Machine Translation? - http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.html
A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
- Word Skit - http://www.wordskit.com/
Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
- You Grok - http://www.yougrok.com
Use the clues to determine the subject of the puzzle. Inspired by Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land.”
- Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties - http://scraps.divinest-sense.com/fun/tom-swifties.php
Definition of this style of play on words, a collection of original and previously-known examples, and links to other collections.
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