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Before and After
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The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
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Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay
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Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
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Bovilexics.com
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Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
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Faulkner or Machine Translation?
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A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
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Keepers of Lists
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A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.
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Phobias
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Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
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The Fictionary
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Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
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Thinking on Words
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A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
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Vocal Names Riddles
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Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
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Word Skit
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Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
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You Grok
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Use the clues to determine the subject of the puzzle. Inspired by Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land.”
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"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head."
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How to say this phrase in various languages.
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A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
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Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
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A Flock of Segers
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Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies.
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Answers to Rhetorical Questions
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Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
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Condit's Linguistical Predicament
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Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
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Corsinet.com
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Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
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Dave's Fun Words
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Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
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Dictionary Of Wordplay
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A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
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Dislexicon Word Generator
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Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
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Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties
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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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Euler's Day Off
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Rearrange a five-by-five grid of letters to form words in crossword fashion. There is a daily puzzle with no registration.
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Family Travel Games
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A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
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Fun With Words
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Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
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Fun-with-words.com
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Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
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Funny Names Site
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Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
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Funnyname.com
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A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
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Gadzillion Things to Think About
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10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
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Humour Articles
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Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
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Language Fun
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Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
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LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions
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Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
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Loquacious Lipograms
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Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
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Lost in Translation
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See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
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Ms-Sam-Antics
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Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
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National Public Radio
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New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
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Opundo
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Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
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Piece of Pi MadLibs
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Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
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SadMan Software: Wordplay
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Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
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Sayings and Rhetoric
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Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
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Scorpio Tales
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Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
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Sources of the Word Yahoo
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Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
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Stink Pink
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Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
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Stupid Questions
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Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
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Text Messages
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A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
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The Collective Noun Page
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Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
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The Mother of All Excuses Place
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Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes.
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The Word Spy
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Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
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Unscramble.net
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Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
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Untruisms and One-Trick Words
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Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
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Vocab Vitamins
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A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
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Wireless Power Word Game
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Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
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Wit Words
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A dictionary of ficticious words.
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Word Games Software
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Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
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Word Masher
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Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary.
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Word Soup Without Vowels
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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.
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Word-Jumble.com
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Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
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Wordage: The Game of Words
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Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
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Wordorium
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A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
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