- 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.
- Piece of Pi MadLibs - http://madlibs.freeservers.com/
- Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
- 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.
- "Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." - http://yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html
- How to say this phrase in various languages.
- Humour Articles - http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm
- Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
- Language Fun - http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun
- Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
- 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.
- Gadzillion Things to Think About - http://www.gadzillionthings.net/
- 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
- LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions - http://users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/rhetoric.htm
- Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
- Answers to Rhetorical Questions - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind.html
- Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Tate Family Members - http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm
- Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Funnyname.com - http://www.funnyname.com/
- A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
- Keepers of Lists - http://www.keepersoflists.org/
- A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.
- The Mother of All Excuses Place - http://madtbone.tripod.com/
- Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes.
- Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties - http://www.without-feathers.com/bits/fun-and-games/reads/tom-swifties.php
- Definition of this style of play on words, a collection of original and previously-known examples, and links to other collections.
- Sanskritpuns99 - http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/
- A personal collection of essays and examples of the form, including parodies of famous works.
- Untruisms and One-Trick Words - http://richard.tangle-wood.co.uk/
- Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
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