Wordplay

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Answers to Rhetorical Questions - Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects..

Before and After - The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight"..

Bovilexics.com - Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts..

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..

The Collective Noun Page - Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'..

Corsinet.com - Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes..

Dave's Fun Words - Categorized list of words which are fun to say..

Dislexicon Word Generator - Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them..

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..

Family Travel Games - A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed..

Faulkner or Machine Translation? - A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English..

Fun With Words - Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia..

Funny Names Site - Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats..

Funnyname.com - A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book..

Fun-with-words.com - Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay..

Gadzillion Things to Think About - 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions..

Keepers of Lists - A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public..

LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions - Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected..

Loquacious Lipograms - Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter..

Lost in Translation - See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results..

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..

National Public Radio - New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge..

"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." - How to say this phrase in various languages..

Opundo - Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour..

Piece of Pi MadLibs - Site featuring a collection of madlibs..

Scorpio Tales - Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English..

Stink Pink - Questions have answers with two rhyming words..

The Tate Family Members - Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name..

Text Messages - A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages..

Unscramble.net - Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online..

Untruisms and One-Trick Words - Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'..

Vocab Vitamins - A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it..

Vocal Names Riddles - Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words..

Word Games Software - Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows..

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..

Word Skit - Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations..

The Word Spy - Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries..

Wordage: The Game of Words - Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths..

Wordorium - A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers..

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