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Open Directory: Recreation: Humor: Wordplay
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 | Before and After www.bridge.net/~labush/lalmwk20.htm
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 www.bovilexics.com
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts. |
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| The Collective Noun Page www.ojohaven.com/collectives
Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'. |
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| Corsinet.com corsinet.com
Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes. |
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| Dave's Fun Words uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
Categorized list of words which are fun to say. |
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| Dislexicon Word Generator www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them. |
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| Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties www.without-feathers.com/bits/fun-and-games/reads/tom-swifties.php
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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| Family Travel Games www.familytravelgames.com
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? reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.html
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 rinkworks.com/words
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia. |
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| Funny Names Site users.breathe.com/ionabigyot
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats. |
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| Funnyname.com www.funnyname.com
A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book. |
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| Fun-with-words.com www.fun-with-words.com
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay. |
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| Humour Articles www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm
Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams. |
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| Keepers of Lists www.keepersoflists.org
A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public. |
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| Language Fun home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances. |
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| Loquacious Lipograms phrontistery.info/lipogram.html
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter. |
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| Lost in Translation 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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| The Mother of All Excuses Place madtbone.tripod.com
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 mssamantics.us
Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included. |
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| National Public Radio www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge. |
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| Opundo www.opundo.com
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour. |
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| Phobias www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt
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 www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99
A personal collection of essays and examples of the form, including parodies of famous works. |
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| Sayings and Rhetoric www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/JOKES/sayings.html
Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions. |
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| Scorpio Tales users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English. |
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| Stink Pink highhopes.com/rhymetime.html
Questions have answers with two rhyming words. |
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| Stupid Questions www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9006/stupid.html
Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions. |
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| Text Messages www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages. |
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| Unscramble.net www.unscramble.net
Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online. |
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| Untruisms and One-Trick Words 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 www.vocabvitamins.com
A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it. |
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| Vocal Names Riddles www.brainteaser-world.com/puzzles/vocal-words/vocal-words-archives.htm
Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words. |
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| Word Games Software 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 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 www.wordskit.com
Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations. |
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| Word Soup Without Vowels www.geocities.com/gabrudos/sopa.htm
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 wordspy.com
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries. |
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| Wordage: The Game of Words www.cmcom.com/wordage
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths. |
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| Word-Jumble.com www.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 www.wordorium.blogspot.com
A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers. |
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