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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.
Words and Stuff - A occasional column on words and word play.
Fun-with-words.com - Dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language.
Stink Pink - Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
Piece of Pi MadLibs - Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
The Collective Noun Page - Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
Mockok.com - A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences. Currently over 2,000 archived.
The Palindromist Magazine - An offline journal for people who write and enjoy palindromes.
Phobias - Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Janet's Wordplay Site - Child-oriented articles, puzzles, and quizzes about having fun with words.
Verbisms - Features words with double meanings, like "Egg Rolls".
Smurf the Web - The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon.
Wireless Power Word Game - Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
AwayMessages.com - Away messages for you to use on such services as AOL, AIM, and ICQ.
Acronym Finder - Searchable database of primarily computer, technology and military acronyms and abbreviations. Includes the Acronym Finder Random Systematic Buzz Phrase Projector Acronym Generator (AFRSBPPAG).
Dislexicon Word Generator - Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
Wordage: The Game of Words - Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
Wordies on the Web - Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying or cliché.
SadMan Software: Wordplay - Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." - How to say this phrase in various languages.
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.
Teach the Stupid Sausage - Here you can teach a little cute sausage definitions of words.
Unwords.com - A collection of made-up words and definitons created by everyday people, out of necessity or for humor.
The Devil's Dictionary Random Definitions - Quotes from Ambrose Bierce's satirical definition selected at random. Complete text also available.
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.
The Devil's Dictionary 2000 - Humorous and satirical word definitions with an up-to-date spin.
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.
Sources of the word YAHOO - Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
Confuzzled Dictionary - This is an online dictionary of strange and bizarre words. Feel free to browse or add your own.
Language Fun - Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
Dictionary Of Wordplay - A collection of puns, tomswiftys, doofinisms, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
Funny Names Site - Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats to make you smile.
Dead Name Game - The object is to slightly alter the name of a deceased celebrity to reflect their passing. Accepts submissions.
Text Messages - A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages such as this: :-).
Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay - Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
Cryptic Quoter - Functional online cryptogram machine and solver.
Cryptagram - Cryptagram is the Windows version of CryptoQuote and WordSearch.
Opundo - Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, sdounops and other humour.
The Word Spy - Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
Dave's Fun Words - Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
Fun With Words - Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
Laphorisms - Interactive word game wherein the viewer completes a phrase or saying in a punny fashion.
Words Ending in -gry - Guess the three English words ending in -gry. The first two are given, but the third?
Phrasalogistics - The way in which words and phrases are combined to have a new meaning.
Loquacious Lipograms - Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
The Hooter List - Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
Gadzillion Things to Think About - 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
Kael's Rhetorical Questions - Questions which may never have an answer.
LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions - Example: What's another word for thesaurus?
Answers to Rhetorical Questions - This time, somebody has the answers to the questions....
Stupid Questions - Asks for your opinion and submission of rhetorical questions.
Why Ask Why? - A series of rhetorical questions about life.
Scorpio Tales - Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
WordBall - The viewer competes against a computer in a baseball-like word-game.
Name Wordplay - Example: If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.
Sanskrit Humor - Wordplay in, about or involving Sanskrit.
Obfuscations of Celebrated Oracular Utterings - Rewords familiar phrases, idioms, and aphorisms with grandiose, academic words and descriptions.
Fictionary Dictionary - Online edition of the popular parlor game for word lovers. Improve your vocabulary while making up phony definitions for obscure words.
Condit's Linguistical Dilemma - Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
Lost in Translation - See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
The Tate Family Members - Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
Untruisms and One-Trick Words - Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
Word-Jumble.com - Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
Anagram Genius - Search the archive or submit your anagrams to be included there.
Lexigrams for Fun - Lexigrams are words or phrases constructed from larger words, names or phrases.
Mumbo Jumbo - Anagram game where you have to unscramble amusing groups of words and phrases.
The Anagram Page - Monthly anagram puzzles plus anagrammed and headless cinema titles.
Anagram Puzzler - See how many of these can you solve in 30 minutes.
Anagram Journey - Tour the Roman city of Chester with anagram interludes.
Interesting Anagrams - Offering randomly generated anagrams.
Wacky Anagrams - Vice Presidents, baseball players and ancient Greeks and others all get the treatment.
What's in a Name - Famous people get turned around. Also includes pages on origins of names.
Scrambles - Java word scrambles covering famous people, the arts, movies, mathematics and the sciences.
Anagrams of Neil Young - The resulting phrases are then given some unusual definitions.
Anagram Choice - Hundreds of anagrams for you to solve.
Anagrams at Puzzle Paradise - Rearrange some telling phrases, to find a few famous names.
National Puzzlers' League - All of these anagrams are relevant to the source words.
Simpsons Anagrams - The characters and their catch phrases are featured here, together with their human creators.
This Month's Anagram - Try to rebuild this topical demolition.
Anagrams from Nashville - Find the country music artists hidden in these clues.
Clot's Intents - Index to famous apt anagrams, anagram quizzes, puzzles and crosswords.
The Morning Oigle - Team Chaos members find out what others think of them.
Selected Anagrams - Computing and the sciences are some of the topics covered.
Anagram Wordplay - A collection of pithy alternatives.
My Favourite Anagrams - Ranging over celebrities, ailments, popular songs and Shakespeare's plays.
Anagrams - Fellow students, well known personalities and institutions are the subjects.
One Writer's Anagrams - Places, events, political leanings and more celebrities are included.
Richard Dawson Anagrams - Dozens of versions of one man's name.
Hog Meat Tact Call - Are the Pokemon characters as innocent as they seem?
Anagrams from Startdl - Your answers spell out a proverb.
The Mystical Phenomenon of Anagrams - A historical look at the origin of anagrams.
Anagrams Never Lie - An essay, incorporating anagrams, on the development of computing.
Rugby Heaven - Rugby stars and other sporting personalities come under the spotlight.
Karl Jones Web - Books, authors, singers, albums and games form some of the content.
Davezilla - Fictional interviews based on anagrams of well known personalities names.
The Anagrammy Awards - A monthly anagram competition, where you can vote for nominated anagrams in 9 categories.
The Unjumbler - Word jumble puzzle solver, and anagram finder.
Ani-Gram - A commentary on world news plus sports, medicine, technology and law. All involve anagrams which animatedly form before your eyes.
Web Ring - Devoted to anagrams, palindromes and word scramblers.
Anagram Generator - On line generator which can deal with long phrases.
Brendan's Anagram Generator - Use online to anagram up to 15 letters, or download.
Anagram Generators - Source code html for downloading to create your own generator.
Anagrams Generator - Enter up to 25 characters for online results.
AnagramFun.com - Find out if your words or phrases can be made into others online.
Andy's Anagram Solver - Multilingual anagrams in English, French and Dutch created online.
Arrak Anagrams - On line generator which will deal with long phrases.
Inge's Anagram Generator - On line generator for up to 25 letters in English, Norwegian or Spanish.
Internet Anagram Server - Discover the wisdom of anagrams on line or by email.
The Anagram Engine - Free Online Anagrams Generator and Crossword Solver - Free online anagram generator, accepting up to 30 letters.
Martin's Anagram Generator. - Can manage very long inputs of your choice.
The Wordy System - Down load for multiple word anagramming.
Anagram Genius server - Free web-based anagram server. Results sent by e-mail.
Anagram Generator - Anagram software for Windows based systems. Features include anagrams, lexigrams, crossword helper, reverse dictionary generator and phone anagrams. Supports English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
Free Offline Anagram Solver - Offline jumble and anagram solver to download (1.31Mb). Covers 60,000 commonly used words and phrases.
Online Anagrams - Anagram server providing solutions in Spanish, English, Danish, Swedish and German. Includes crossword solver.
BadPuns.com - Site for puns, spoonerisms, and other wordplays. Also includes a collection of punny cartoons, plus links and webrings.
Pun of the Day - Archive of puns in categories such as food, transportation, families, education, and work. Plus a one-liner pun every week day.
The Foolish Dictionary - The online edition of the classic Gideon Wurdz book.
International Save The Puns Foundation - Accepts contributions. Has pun of the day, Punster of the Year, links, and bookshelf.
Chet Meek's Page of Puns - Wide-ranging list of puns and wordplay, many of which are rhetorical in nature. Gladly accepts submissions from viewers.
Once a Pun a Time - Series of drawings by Robert Paschell showing puns like "Semiconductor" and "Delusions of Gander".
Jest for Pun - Covers Murphy's Laws, bumper stickers, Punfucious, pick-up lines plus other groaners and one-liners.
Irish Puns - Includes puns with a definitely Irish flavor. Also proverbs, blessings and prayers. Submissions accepted.
Shaggy Pun Test - Involves taking a test about 100+ corruptions of phrases. Submissions are accepted.
Cartoon Captions - A series of captionless cartoons. Fill in an answer, then see those supplied by Professor Zounds.
Boovietoons - A series of cartoons punning various movies of the past.
Pundemonium - Math, history, literature, names, politics, music, religion, science and technology all get punned. Submissions accepted. Links.
Salad Speak - Numerous puns based on food.
Big Puns - Covers family, law, cows, mathematics and conmen. Offers a free humor newsletter and links.
Prose as Deadly Torture - Collection of puns designed to cause pain. Accepts submissions.
That's So Punny - Cartoons depicting puns. Other humor involved.
The Absolutely Useless Dictionary - Contains a collection of word definitions sorted alphabetically.
Some Bad Puns - Attacks boll weevils, fish, chess, neutrons and even puns themselves, to name a few.
Puns for the ESL/EFL Classroom - Designed to help teachers of English as a Second Language. Also covers misuse of English. Requests submissions.
Snap Puns - Distorted definitions plus punnish wordplay.
Planet Mike Puns - Covers monkey cloning, Gandhi, beer, and flunking English.
Lowest Form of Wit - Commentary on puns, involving Freud, Jesus and playwrights, plus links.
Retarded Puns - Includes a list of punny book titles.
Ike Speak - View of and commentary on the world of puns.
Haw Haw Puns - Over fifty Wordplays including William Tell, Mary Poppins, Frankenstein, Transylvania, and origin of gravity and doctors.
Visual Puzzle Puns - Involves graphics depicting phrases and cliches.
Commentary on Puns - James Merrill's overview on punning.
ESL Puns - Examples of wordplay for those learning English as a second language.
Examples of Tropes in Puns - Technical analysis of paranomasia, onomatopoeia, antanaclasis and syllepsis.
Star Wars Puns - Han Solo, Princess Leia, Ewoks, the Phantom Menace et al get the treatment.
The Atrium - A technical, literary-oriented string of letters from viewers commenting on puns in classical Latin works.
Punch Puns - Historical commentary on this famous British magazine's punning in 1841-2. Contains punnish lithographs as examples.
Borg Puns - Daffynitions of "Borg" words.
Fish Puns - Wordplay based on already-existing song titles, with fish as the basic theme.
Symbolic Puns - Essay on visual punning and the use of symbols representing multiple mental associations.
MacScouter Puns - Wordplay on Dick Whittington's cat, psychics, Beethoven, and witch doctors.
Visual Puns - Try to guess a word or phrase represented by an image.
Visual Pun Pieces - Pictures of ceramic models constructed to depict a pun.
Visual Brain Puns - Drawings illustrating punny expressions.
Periodic Table Puns - A test requiring using the imagination. Requests submissions.
Homonyms Can Be "Punny" - Humor with educational value, designed primarily for kids.
Tea and Buns/Puns - Whimsical wordplay on life by various women.
Ringing Praise - Puns with a "bell" theme and other subjects.
Finnish puns - Examples of Finnish wordplay translated into English.
Hamlet's Puns - Paradoxes in Shakespeare's play with annotated index.
The Pun FAQtory - Covers the history and styling of paronomasia - the art of the pun. The unofficial FAQ for the UseNet newsgroup alt.humor.puns.
Foreign Puns - Wordplay from a competition wherein competitors change one letter in a familiar non-English phrase and redefine it.
Hot Crossed Puns - Example: "Why won't melons elope in Las Vegas? They cantaloupe."
Web English Teacher - Although designed primarily to be instructional, these puns can also be appreciated by all.
Pick-up Puns - Musically-oriented wordplay with modestly sexual overtones.
Steve Brooks Puns - The six-time winner of the O. Henry Pun-off World Championship offers "Inhale to the Chief", "Tex-Mexexistentialism" and "Lincoln's Texasburg Address".
Richard Lederer's Verbivore - Examples of his works, analyses of language and links. Invites email and questions on the matter.
Yahoo! Groups: Puns-of-the-Day - A group of 180+ punsters who swap puns. Seeks new members.
JardMail Puns - Punning with a British flavor.
Gulliver's Travels and its Sanskrit Puns - Demonstrates wordplay by Jonathan Swift based on Sanskrit.
Author's Defense - Claims that Jonathan Swift's love of wordplay and languages is fertile ground for Sanskritic wordplay in Gulliver's Travels, including the fact that Gulliver gave permission for readers to "adjust" the story.
Puns Galore - A searchable database of puns collected from the internet.
Attila the Pun - Puns with an occasional international flavor.
GreatestPunsOnEarth.com - Contribute your own puns or rate and review others.
Visual Puns - Kid-oriented equations and plexers from Cannon Falls Home Education Association.
A Dictionary of the Absurd - Compilation of a new dictionary, designed to warp English.
Language Organizations - List of organizations for the hardcore punster, wordplayer and verbivore.
Pun World - Random puns for your enjoyment.
Gilbert DeBenedetti - Visual puns with a musical theme.
Once a Pun a Time - Artistic punny drawings by Robert Paschell: "Graze Anatomy", "Mooed Ring", "Cafe Ole" and others.
Ambigrams by Stefan Gustavson - Introduction to ambigrams, information about how the writer got involved in them, recommended book, and some of the author's own ambigrams.
Ambigrams - Contains a few ambigrams including 2 four-word ones and a circular one.
Scott Kim's page - Contains examples of Scott Kim's ambigrams.
John Langdon - Presentation of his artistic-like ambigrams.
Japanese Ambigrams - Some ambigrams in Japanese characters.
Ambigram.Com - Contains Ambigram-Matic for creating your own personal ambigrams online, plus reversible matchbox art and links.
Spanish Ambigrams - Although in Spanish, the viewer can appreciate the ambigrams by clicking on the figures.
Upsidedown Truths - Ambigrams involving Christian concepts.
Gef's Ambigram Gallery - French site in English, involving ambigrams of French people and phrases.
Ambigrams by Robert M. - Ambigrams of famous celebrities and expressions.
Punya's Visual Wordplay Gallery - Includes ambigrams of Hindu words and names plus others.
Oxymora Lists - Serious and Humorous - Includes introduction and multipage listings of oxymorons.
Ethan's Oxymorons Page - Includes word list and definition with famous oxymorons from George Carlin.
Oxymorons.com - Contains definition and word list plus information about the band called Oxymorons.
Shooter's Oxymoron Page - Includes a definition of oxymorons and lists of oxymorons. Lists include ones for places names, movies, quotes and product names which contain oxymorons.
Oxymoron List - Top twenty ranking and large list of oxymorons.
Internet Oxymoron List - Large compiled list of oxymorons.
Oxymoron Tshirts by Oxymoronix - Funny oxymoron tshirts imprinted with oxymorons such as Business Ethics and Male Intellect. List of oxymorons and oxymoron message board.
Funzo Jokes Oxymorons - Collection of fun oxymorons

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