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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 |
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Dictionary Of Wordplay
A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
http://wordplay.narod.ru/ |
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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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Bovilexics.com
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
http://www.bovilexics.com/ |
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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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Gadzillion Things to Think About
10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
http://www.gadzillionthings.net/ |
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Sayings and Rhetoric
Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/JOKES/sayings.html |
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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 |
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Humour Articles
Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm |
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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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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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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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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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Wireless Power Word Game
Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
http://www.wirelesspower.com/ |
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Funny Names Site
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/ |
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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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A Flock of Segers
Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies.
http://www.aflockofsegers.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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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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Stink Pink
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html |
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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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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 |
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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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Fun-with-words.com
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
http://www.fun-with-words.com/ |
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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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Dave's Fun Words
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html |
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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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Answers to Rhetorical Questions
Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind.html |
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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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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.
http://www.eulersdayoff.org |
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Fun With Words
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
http://rinkworks.com/words |
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Thinking on Words
A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printthread.php?threadid=17649 |
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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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Text Messages
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.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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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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Ms-Sam-Antics
Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
http://mssamantics.us |
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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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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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Scorpio Tales
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank |
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Sanskrit Humor
Wordplay in, about or involving Sanskrit.
http://sanskrit.bhaarat.com/Dale/Humor.html |
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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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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 |
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Piece of Pi MadLibs
Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
http://madlibs.freeservers.com/ |
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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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The Fictionary
Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
http://www.witwords.com/fictionary.cfm |
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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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Opundo
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
http://www.opundo.com |
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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 |
Additional
Information: Anagrams, ambigrams, word trivia, puns, ambigrams, and palindromes to name a few. Often humorous but may also satisfy obsessive-compulsive cravings.
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