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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". |
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» Bovilexics.com - Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts. |
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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'. |
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» Corsinet.com - Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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» The Fictionary - Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions. |
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» Fun With Words - Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia. |
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» Funnyname.com - A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book. |
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» Fun-with-words.com - Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay. |
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» Humour Articles - Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams. |
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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. |
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» Language Fun - Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances. |
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» Loquacious Lipograms - Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter. |
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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. |
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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. |
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» Ms-Sam-Antics - Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included. |
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» National Public Radio - New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge. |
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» Opundo - Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour. |
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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. |
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» Sanskritpuns99 - A personal collection of essays and examples of the form, including parodies of famous works. |
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» Scorpio Tales - Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English. |
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» Stink Pink - Questions have answers with two rhyming words. |
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» Stupid Questions - Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions. |
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» Unscramble.net - Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online. |
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» Vocab Vitamins - A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it. |
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» Word Games Software - Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. |
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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. |
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» Word Skit - Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations. |
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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. |
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» The Word Spy - Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries. |
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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. |
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» Wordorium - A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers. |
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