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A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html: Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
Fun-with-words.com http://www.fun-with-words.com/: Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
Stink Pink http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html: Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
Piece of Pi MadLibs http://madlibs.freeservers.com/: Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
The Collective Noun Page http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/: Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
Phobias http://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.
Wireless Power Word Game http://www.wirelesspower.com/: Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
Wordage: The Game of Words http://www.cmcom.com/wordage/: Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
SadMan Software: Wordplay http://www.simes.clara.co.uk/programs/wordplay.htm: Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." http://yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html: How to say this phrase in various languages.
Humour Articles http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm: Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
Sources of the Word Yahoo http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/yahoo1.html: Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
Language Fun http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun: Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
Dictionary Of Wordplay http://wordplay.narod.ru/: A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
Text Messages http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html: A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/bo.html: Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
Opundo http://www.opundo.com: Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
The Word Spy http://wordspy.com: Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
Dave's Fun Words http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html: Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
Fun With Words http://rinkworks.com/words: Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
Gadzillion Things to Think About http://www.gadzillionthings.net/: 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions http://users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/rhetoric.htm: Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
Answers to Rhetorical Questions http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind.html: Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
Stupid Questions http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9006/stupid.html: Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
Scorpio Tales http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank: Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
Condit's Linguistical Predicament http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/condit.html: Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
Lost in Translation http://tashian.com/multibabel: See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
The Tate Family Members http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm: Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
Untruisms and One-Trick Words http://users.ox.ac.uk/~diab0011/ignore.html: Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
Word-Jumble.com http://www.word-jumble.com: Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
Ms-Sam-Antics http://mssamantics.us: Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
Word Games Software http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html: Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
Bovilexics.com http://www.bovilexics.com/: Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
Vocab Vitamins http://www.vocabvitamins.com/: A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
Word Soup Without Vowels http://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.
Funny Names Site http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/: Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
Word Masher http://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.
National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/: New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
Thinking on Words http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printthread.php?threadid=17649: A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
Vocal Names Riddles http://www.brainteaser-world.com/puzzles/vocal-words/vocal-words-archives.htm: Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
Before and After http://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".
Family Travel Games http://www.familytravelgames.com: A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
Sayings and Rhetoric http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/JOKES/sayings.html: Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
The Fictionary http://www.witwords.com/fictionary.cfm: Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
Dislexicon Word Generator http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc: Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
Euler's Day Off http://www.eulersdayoff.org: Rearrange a five-by-five grid of letters to form words in crossword fashion. There is a daily puzzle with no registration.
Wordorium http://www.wordorium.blogspot.com: A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
Unscramble.net http://www.unscramble.net: Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
Corsinet.com http://corsinet.com/: Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
Loquacious Lipograms http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html: Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
Faulkner or Machine Translation? http://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.
Word Skit http://www.wordskit.com/: Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
You Grok http://www.yougrok.com: Use the clues to determine the subject of the puzzle. Inspired by Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land.”
Funnyname.com http://www.funnyname.com/: A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
Keepers of Lists http://www.keepersoflists.org/: A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.
The Mother of All Excuses Place http://madtbone.tripod.com/: Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes.
Wit Words http://www.witwords.com: A dictionary of ficticious words.
Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties http://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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