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 | - 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
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 | - Bovilexics.com
- Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
http://www.bovilexics.com/
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 | - 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.html
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 | - 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/
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 | - Corsinet.com
- Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
http://corsinet.com/
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 | - Dave's Fun Words
- Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
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 | - Dislexicon Word Generator
- Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc
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 | - 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://www.without-feathers.com/bits/fun-and-games/reads/tom-swifties.php
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 | - 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
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 | - 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
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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.html
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 | - The Fictionary
- Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
http://www.witwords.com/fictionary.cfm
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 | - Fun With Words
- Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
http://rinkworks.com/words
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 | - Funny Names Site
- Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/
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 | - Funnyname.com
- A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
http://www.funnyname.com/
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 | - Fun-with-words.com
- Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
http://www.fun-with-words.com/
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 | - Humour Articles
- Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm
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 | - 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/
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 | - Language Fun
- Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun
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 | - Loquacious Lipograms
- Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html
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 | - 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
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 | - 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/
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 | - Ms-Sam-Antics
- Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
http://mssamantics.us
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 | - National Public Radio
- New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
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 | - Opundo
- Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
http://www.opundo.com
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 | - Phobias
- 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/FunnyPhobias.txt
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 | - Sanskritpuns99
- A personal collection of essays and examples of the form, including parodies of famous works.
http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/
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 | - Sayings and Rhetoric
- Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/JOKES/sayings.html
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 | - Scorpio Tales
- Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
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 | - Stink Pink
- Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html
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 | - Stupid Questions
- Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9006/stupid.html
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 | - Text Messages
- A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html
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 | - Thinking on Words
- A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printthread.php?threadid=17649
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 | - Unscramble.net
- Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
http://www.unscramble.net
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 | - 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://richard.tangle-wood.co.uk/
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 | - Vocab Vitamins
- A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
http://www.vocabvitamins.com/
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 | - Vocal Names Riddles
- Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
http://www.brainteaser-world.com/puzzles/vocal-words/vocal-words-archives.htm
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 | - Word Games Software
- Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html
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 | - 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
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 | - Word Skit
- Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
http://www.wordskit.com/
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 | - 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
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 | - The Word Spy
- Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
http://wordspy.com
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 | - 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/
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 | - 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
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 | - Wordorium
- A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
http://www.wordorium.blogspot.com
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