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"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." -
How to say this phrase in various languages.
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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.
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Answers to Rhetorical Questions -
Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
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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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Corsinet.com -
Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
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Dave's Fun Words -
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
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Dislexicon Word Generator -
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
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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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Fun With Words - http://rinkworks.com/words
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
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Fun-with-words.com - http://rinkworks.com/words
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
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Funny Names Site - http://rinkworks.com/words
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
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Funnyname.com - http://rinkworks.com/words
A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
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Gadzillion Things to Think About - http://rinkworks.com/words
10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
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Humour Articles - http://rinkworks.com/words
Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
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Keepers of Lists - http://rinkworks.com/words
A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.
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Language Fun - http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
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LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions - http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun
Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
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Loquacious Lipograms - http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
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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.
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Ms-Sam-Antics - http://tashian.com/multibabel
Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
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National Public Radio - http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
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Opundo - http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
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Phobias - http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
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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Piece of Pi MadLibs - http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
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Sanskritpuns99 - http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
A personal collection of essays and examples of the form, including parodies of famous works.
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Sayings and Rhetoric - http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
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Scorpio Tales - http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
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Stink Pink - http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
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Stupid Questions - http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
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Text Messages - http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
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The Collective Noun Page - http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
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 - http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
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 Tate Family Members - http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm
Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
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The Word Spy - http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
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Thinking on Words - http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printthread.php?threadid=17649
A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
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Unscramble.net - http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printthread.php?threadid=17649
Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
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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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Vocab Vitamins - http://richard.tangle-wood.co.uk/
A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
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Vocal Names Riddles - http://richard.tangle-wood.co.uk/
Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
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Word Games Software - http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html
Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
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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.
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Word Skit - http://www.aurete.com/wordmasher
Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
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Word Soup Without Vowels - http://www.aurete.com/wordmasher
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 - http://www.aurete.com/wordmasher
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 - http://www.cmcom.com/wordage/
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
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Wordorium - http://www.cmcom.com/wordage/
A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
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