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.
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html
Words and Stuff:
A occasional column on words and word play.
http://www.kith.org/logos/words/words.html
Fun-with-words.com:
Dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the
English language.
http://www.fun-with-words.com/
Stink Pink:
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html
Piece of Pi MadLibs:
Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
http://madlibs.freeservers.com/
The Collective Noun Page:
Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a
murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/
Mockok.com:
A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single
sentences. Currently over 2,000 archived.
http://www.mockok.com/
The Palindromist Magazine:
An offline journal for people who write and enjoy palindromes.
http://www.realchange.org/pal/
Phobias:
Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like
arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of
the mouth.
http://www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt
Janet's Wordplay Site:
Child-oriented articles, puzzles, and quizzes about having fun with
words.
http://www.jy-muggeridge.freeserve.co.uk/
Smurf the Web:
The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon.
http://websmurfer.devnull.net/
AwayMessages.com:
Away messages for you to use on such services as AOL, AIM, and ICQ.
http://www.awaymessages.com/
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).
http://acronymfinder.com/
Dislexicon Word Generator:
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and
definitions for them.
http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc
Wordage: The Game of Words:
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as
well as any lurking wordsmiths.
http://www.cmcom.com/wordage/
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.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98dec/computer.htm
Unwords.com:
A collection of made-up words and definitons created by everyday
people, out of necessity or for humor.
http://www.unwords.com/
The Devil's Dictionary Random Definitions:
Quotes from Ambrose Bierce's satirical definition selected at
random. Complete text also available.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/quotes/devdict_random.html
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.
http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm
The Devil's Dictionary 2000:
Humorous and satirical word definitions with an up-to-date spin.
http://www.sedition.com/DD2K/
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.
http://www.palindromes.org/
Sources of the word YAHOO:
Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound
like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/yahoo1.html
Confuzzled Dictionary:
This is an online dictionary of strange and bizarre words. Feel free
to browse or add your own.
http://www.beryllium.ca/confuzzled/
Language Fun:
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted
under numerous circumstances.
http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun
Dictionary Of Wordplay:
A collection of puns, tomswiftys, doofinisms, jokes,
tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
http://wordplay.narod.ru/
Funny Names Site:
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats to make you
smile.
http://www.funnynames.vze.com
Dead Name Game:
The object is to slightly alter the name of a deceased celebrity to
reflect their passing. Accepts submissions.
http://www.redkoala.co.uk
Text Messages:
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages such as this: :-).
http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html
Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay:
Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains
wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/bo.html
Cryptic Quoter:
Functional online cryptogram machine and solver.
http://guitar.to/cryptic.html
Cryptagram:
Cryptagram is the Windows version of CryptoQuote and WordSearch.
http://www.cryptagram.com
Opundo:
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica,
scientifica, sdounops and other humour.
http://www.opundo.com
The Word Spy:
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly,
plus archives of previous entries.
http://wordspy.com
Dave's Fun Words:
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
Fun With Words:
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other
trivia.
http://rinkworks.com/words
Words Ending in -gry:
Guess the three English words ending in -gry. The first two are
given, but the third?
http://www.geocities.com/loisnotlane/gry.html
Phrasalogistics:
The way in which words and phrases are combined to have a new
meaning.
http://www.phrasalogistics.com
Loquacious Lipograms:
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a
single letter.
http://phrontistery.50megs.com/lipogram.html
The Hooter List:
Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
http://www.joebobbriggs.com/list/hooterlist.txt
Fictionary Dictionary:
Online edition of the popular parlor game for word lovers. Improve
your vocabulary while making up phony definitions for obscure words.
http://www.fictionarydictionary.com
Condit's Linguistical Dilemma:
Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of
Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/condit.html
Lost in Translation:
See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer
back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
http://tashian.com/multibabel
The Tate Family Members:
Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm
Untruisms and One-Trick Words:
Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can
only be used within a cliche'.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~diab0011/ignore.html
Word-Jumble.com:
Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and
miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
http://www.word-jumble.com
Odford English Dictionary:
A collection of humorous new meanings of words in the English
language. Visitors can submit their own entries.
http://www.odford.co.uk/
Ms-Sam-Antics:
Daffynitions, puns, haiku and word play. Accepts contributions.
http://mssamantics.us
Word Games Software:
Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English
thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html
Mad Ape Den:
Articles and messageboards on a variety of topics with all words
over three letters off-limits.
http://www.madapeden.com
Bovilexics.com:
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important
and unimportant concepts.
http://www.bovilexics.com/
Vocab Vitamins:
A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
http://www.vocabvitamins.com/
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.
http://www.geocities.com/gabrudos/sopa.htm
Name That Porno:
Take the title of a standard movie and rename it with a porno theme.
Submissions accepted.
http://namethatporno.com
Travel Games:
Family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy
to challenging. No additional implements needed.
http://www.familytravelgames.com
