- "Oh my God! There's an axe in my head."
How to say this phrase in various languages.
- 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.
- Answers to Rhetorical Questions
Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
- AwayMessages.com
Away messages for you to use on such services as AOL, AIM, and ICQ.
- Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay
Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
- Bovilexics.com
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
- Condit's Linguistical Predicament
Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
- Confuzzled Dictionary
This is an online dictionary of strange and bizarre words. Feel free to browse or add your own.
- Cryptagram
Cryptagram is the Windows version of CryptoQuote and WordSearch.
- Cryptic Quoter
Functional online cryptogram machine and solver.
- Dave's Fun Words
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
- Dead Name Game
The object is to slightly alter the name of a deceased celebrity to reflect their passing. Accepts submissions.
- Dictionary Of Wordplay
A collection of puns, tomswiftys, doofinisms, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
- Dislexicon Word Generator
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
- Faulkner or Machine Translation?
A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
- Fictionary Dictionary
Online edition of the popular parlor game for word lovers. Improve your vocabulary while making up phony definitions for obscure words.
- Fun With Words
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
- Fun-with-words.com
Dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language.
- Funny Names Site
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats to make you smile.
- Gadzillion Things to Think About
10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
- 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.
- Janet's Wordplay Site
Child-oriented articles, puzzles, and quizzes about having fun with words.
- 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.
- Language Fun
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
- LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions
Example: What's another word for thesaurus?
- List of Silly Names
Includes towns, marriages, silly science and universities. Accepts submissions.
- 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.
- Mad Ape Den
Articles and messageboards on a variety of topics with all words over three letters off-limits.
- Mockok.com
A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences. Currently over 2,000 archived.
- Ms-Sam-Antics
Daffynitions, puns, haiku and word play. Accepts contributions.
- Name That Porno
Take the title of a standard movie and rename it with a porno theme. Submissions accepted.
- Name Wordplay
Example: If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.
- National Public Radio
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
- Obfuscations of Celebrated Oracular Utterings
Rewords familiar phrases, idioms, and aphorisms with grandiose, academic words and descriptions.
- Odford English Dictionary
A collection of humorous new meanings of words in the English language. Visitors can submit their own entries.
- Opundo
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, sdounops and other humour.
- Palindromelist.com
A list of palindromes, which are words or phrases that read the same backwards or forwards.
- Phobias
Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
- Phrasalogistics
The way in which words and phrases are combined to have a new meaning.
- Piece of Pi MadLibs
Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
- Pseudo Dictionary
Newly-created words that may someday enter general usage. Submit your own words.
- SadMan Software: Wordplay
Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
- Sanskrit Humor
Wordplay in, about or involving Sanskrit.
- Science Wordplay
Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.
- Scorpio Tales
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
- Similes Galore
A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
- Smurf the Web
The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon.
- Sources of the word YAHOO
Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
- Stink Pink
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
- Stupid Questions
Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
- Text Messages
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
- 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.
- The Collective Noun Page
Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
- The Devil's Dictionary 2000
Humorous and satirical word definitions with an up-to-date spin.
- The Devil's Dictionary Random Definitions
Quotes from Ambrose Bierce's satirical definition selected at random. Complete text also available.
- The Fictionary
Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
- The Hooter List
Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
- The Palindromist Magazine
An offline journal for people who write and enjoy palindromes.
- The Tate Family Members
Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
- The Word Spy
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
- Thinking on Words
A philosophical commentary on various words and expressions.
- Travel Games
A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
- Untruisms and One-Trick Words
Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
- Unwords.com
A collection of made-up words and definitons created by everyday people, out of necessity or for humor.
- Vocab Vitamins
A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
- Why Ask Why?
A series of rhetorical questions about life.
- Wireless Power Word Game
Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
- 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 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.
- Word-Jumble.com
Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
- Wordage: The Game of Words
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
- WordBall
The viewer competes against a computer in a baseball-like word-game.
- Wordies on the Web
Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying or cliché.
- Words and Stuff
An occasional column commenting on words and wordplay.
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