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Wordplay:

Answers to Rhetorical Questions

Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind.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

Graand

Free Classified Ads Portal

www.graand.com

Bovilexics.com

Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.

http://www.bovilexics.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.html

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/

Corsinet.com

Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.

http://corsinet.com/

Dave's Fun Words

Categorized list of words which are fun to say.

http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html

Dislexicon Word Generator

Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.

http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc

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

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

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

Fun With Words

Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.

http://rinkworks.com/words

Funny Names Site

Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.

http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/

Funnyname.com

A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.

http://www.funnyname.com/

Fun-with-words.com

Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.

http://www.fun-with-words.com/

Gadzillion Things to Think About

10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.

http://www.gadzillionthings.net/

Humour Articles

Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.

http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm

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/

Language Fun

Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.

http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun

LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions

Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.

http://users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/rhetoric.htm

Loquacious Lipograms

Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.

http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html

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

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/

Ms-Sam-Antics

Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.

http://mssamantics.us

National Public Radio

New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.

http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/

"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head."

How to say this phrase in various languages.

http://yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html

Opundo

Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.

http://www.opundo.com

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

Piece of Pi MadLibs

Site featuring a collection of madlibs.

http://madlibs.freeservers.com/

Sanskritpuns99

A personal collection of essays and examples of the form, including parodies of famous works.

http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/

Sayings and Rhetoric

Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/JOKES/sayings.html

Scorpio Tales

Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.

http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank

Stink Pink

Questions have answers with two rhyming words.

http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html

Stupid Questions

Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9006/stupid.html

The Tate Family Members

Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.

http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm

Text Messages

A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.

http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html

Thinking on Words

A whimsical view on some words and expressions.

http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printthread.php?threadid=17649

Unscramble.net

Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.

http://www.unscramble.net

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/

Vocab Vitamins

A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.

http://www.vocabvitamins.com/

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

Word Games Software

Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.

http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.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

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

The Word Spy

Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.

http://wordspy.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

Wordorium

A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.

http://www.wordorium.blogspot.com

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