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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.

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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'.

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Bovilexics.com

http://www.bovilexics.com/

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

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Corsinet.com

http://corsinet.com/

Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.

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Dave's Fun Words

http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html

Categorized list of words which are fun to say.

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Dislexicon Word Generator

http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc

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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Fun With Words

http://rinkworks.com/words

Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.

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Fun-with-words.com

http://www.fun-with-words.com/

Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.

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Funny Names Site

http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/

Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.

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Funnyname.com

http://www.funnyname.com/

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

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Humour Articles

http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm

Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.

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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.

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Language Fun

http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun

Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.

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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.

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Loquacious Lipograms

http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html

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

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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.

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Ms-Sam-Antics

http://mssamantics.us

Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.

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National Public Radio

http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/

New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.

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