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Newly-created words that may someday enter general usage. Submit your own words.
http://www.pseudodictionary.com
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Thinking on Words
A philosophical commentary on various words and expressions.
http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printthread.php?threadid=17649
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National Public Radio
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
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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.
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~simkin/sounds_like_faulkner.html
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The Fictionary
Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
http://www.fictionary.us
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Science Wordplay
Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.
http://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/~wise/wise187/janfeb2001/weblinks/physics_jokes.html
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Palindromelist.com
A list of palindromes, which are words or phrases that read the same backwards or forwards.
http://www.palindromelist.com
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List of Silly Names
Includes towns, marriages, silly science and universities. Accepts submissions.
http://www.silly-names.co.uk/
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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.
http://www.aurete.com/wordmasher
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Funny Names Site
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats to make you smile.
http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/
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Similes Galore
A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
http://www.datafilebank.com/similesgalore/
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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
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Name That Porno
Take the title of a standard movie and rename it with a porno theme. Submissions accepted.
http://namethatporno.com
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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.
http://www.geocities.com/gabrudos/sopa.htm
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Vocab Vitamins
A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
http://www.vocabvitamins.com/
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Bovilexics.com
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
http://www.bovilexics.com/
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Mad Ape Den
Articles and messageboards on a variety of topics with all words over three letters off-limits.
http://www.madapeden.com
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Word Games Software
Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for
Windows.
http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html
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Ms-Sam-Antics
Daffynitions, puns, haiku and word play. Accepts contributions.
http://mssamantics.us
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Odford English Dictionary
A collection of humorous new meanings of words in the English language. Visitors can submit their
own entries.
http://www.odford.co.uk/
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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.
http://www.word-jumble.com
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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://users.ox.ac.uk/~diab0011/ignore.html
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The Tate Family Members
Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm
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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.
http://tashian.com/multibabel
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Condit's Linguistical Predicament
Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the
Chandra Levy matter.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/condit.html
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Fictionary Dictionary
Online edition of the popular parlor game for word lovers. Improve your vocabulary while making up
phony definitions for obscure words.
http://www.fictionarydictionary.com
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Obfuscations of Celebrated Oracular Utterings
Rewords familiar phrases, idioms, and aphorisms with grandiose, academic words and descriptions.
http://www.obfuscations.com
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Sanskrit Humor
Wordplay in, about or involving Sanskrit.
http://sanskrit.bhaarat.com/Dale/Humor.html
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Name Wordplay
Example: If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.
http://www.jokes2go.com/lists/list50.html
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WordBall
The viewer competes against a computer in a baseball-like word-game.
http://www.aquiz.com/WordBall/WordBall.htm
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Scorpio Tales
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
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Why Ask Why?
A series of rhetorical questions about life.
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~rudy/why.html
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Stupid Questions
Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9006/stupid.html
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Answers to Rhetorical Questions
Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind.html
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LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions
Example: What's another word for thesaurus?
http://users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/rhetoric.htm
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Gadzillion Things to Think About
10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
http://www.gadzillionthings.net/
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The Hooter List
Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
http://www.joebobbriggs.com/list/hooterlist.txt
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Loquacious Lipograms
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
http://phrontistery.50megs.com/lipogram.html
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Phrasalogistics
The way in which words and phrases are combined to have a new meaning.
http://www.phrasalogistics.com
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Fun With Words
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
http://rinkworks.com/words
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Dave's Fun Words
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
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The Word Spy
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
http://wordspy.com
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Opundo
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, sdounops and other
humour.
http://www.opundo.com
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Cryptagram
Cryptagram is the Windows version of CryptoQuote and WordSearch.
http://www.cryptagram.com
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Cryptic Quoter
Functional online cryptogram machine and solver.
http://guitar.to/cryptic.html
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Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay
Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu
language.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/bo.html
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Text Messages
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html
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Dead Name Game
The object is to slightly alter the name of a deceased celebrity to reflect their passing. Accepts
submissions.
http://www.redkoala.co.uk
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Dictionary Of Wordplay
A collection of puns, tomswiftys, doofinisms, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms,
and homophones.
http://wordplay.narod.ru/
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Language Fun
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun
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Confuzzled Dictionary
This is an online dictionary of strange and bizarre words. Feel free to browse or add your own.
http://www.beryllium.ca/confuzzled/
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Sources of the word YAHOO
Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including
Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/yahoo1.html
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Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection
A collection of palindromes, phrases that spell the same forwards as backwards, with links to
relevant resources on the web and elsewhere.
http://www.palindromes.org/
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The Devil's Dictionary 2000
Humorous and satirical word definitions with an up-to-date spin.
http://www.sedition.com/DD2K/
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Humour Articles
Collection of various forms of wordplay compiled from media and the web. Why Ask Why, Computers'
Daft Definitions and Deft Definitions Collection included.
http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm
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The Devil's Dictionary Random Definitions
Quotes from Ambrose Bierce's satirical definition selected at random. Complete text also
available.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/quotes/devdict_random.html
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Unwords.com
A collection of made-up words and definitons created by everyday people, out of necessity or for
humor.
http://www.unwords.com/
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The Atlantic Online: Lost in Translation
Article explores the then-available online translation programs and their strengths and
shortcomings. Some humorous examples of mistranslated phrases.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98dec/computer.htm
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"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head."
How to say this phrase in various languages.
http://yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html
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SadMan Software: Wordplay
Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
http://www.simes.clara.co.uk/programs/wordplay.htm
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Wordies on the Web
Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying or
cliché.
http://www.cyg.net/~ddoctor/index.html
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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/
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Dislexicon Word Generator
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc
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AwayMessages.com
Away messages for you to use on such services as AOL, AIM, and ICQ.
http://www.awaymessages.com/
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Wireless Power Word Game
Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
http://www.wirelesspower.com/
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Smurf the Web
The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon.
http://websmurfer.devnull.net/
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Janet's Wordplay Site
Child-oriented articles, puzzles, and quizzes about having fun with words.
http://www.jy-muggeridge.freeserve.co.uk/
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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.
http://www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt
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The Palindromist Magazine
An offline journal for people who write and enjoy palindromes.
http://www.realchange.org/pal/
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Mockok.com
A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences. Currently over 2,000
archived.
http://www.mockok.com/
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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'.
http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/
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Piece of Pi MadLibs
Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
http://madlibs.freeservers.com/
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Stink Pink
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html
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Fun-with-words.com
Dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language.
http://www.fun-with-words.com/
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Words and Stuff
An occasional column commenting on words and wordplay.
http://www.kith.org/logos/words/words.html
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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.
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html
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