 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. |
 A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia - http://jeff560.tripod.com/words.html Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia. |
 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. |
 Funny Names Site - http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/ Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats. |
 Word Games Software - http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. |
 Piece of Pi MadLibs - http://madlibs.freeservers.com/ Site featuring a collection of madlibs. |
 Stink Pink - http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html Questions have answers with two rhyming words. |
 Wordorium - http://www.wordorium.blogspot.com A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers. |
 The Word Spy - http://wordspy.com Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries. |
 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". |
 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. |
 National Public Radio - http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/ New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge. |
 Funnyname.com - http://www.funnyname.com/ A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book. |
 Word Skit - http://www.wordskit.com/ Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations. |
 Fun With Words - http://rinkworks.com/words Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia. |
 Corsinet.com - http://corsinet.com/ Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Vocab Vitamins - http://www.vocabvitamins.com/ A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it. |
 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. |
 Unscramble.net - http://www.unscramble.net Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online. |
 Scorpio Tales - http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English. |
 The Tate Family Members - http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Opundo - http://www.opundo.com Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour. |
 "Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." - http://yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html How to say this phrase in various languages. |
 Dislexicon Word Generator - http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them. |
 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'. |
 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. |
 Fun-with-words.com - http://www.fun-with-words.com/ Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay. |
 Gadzillion Things to Think About - http://www.gadzillionthings.net/ 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions. |
 Text Messages - http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages. |
 Bovilexics.com - http://www.bovilexics.com/ Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts. |
 Dave's Fun Words - http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html Categorized list of words which are fun to say. |
 Untruisms and One-Trick Words - http://richard.tangle-wood.co.uk/ Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'. |
 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. |
 Answers to Rhetorical Questions - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind.html Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects. |
 Loquacious Lipograms - http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter. |