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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
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://jeff560.tripod.com/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
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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