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- Before and After - - 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 - - Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
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- The Collective Noun Page - - Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
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- Corsinet.com - - Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
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- Dictionary Of Wordplay - - A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
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- Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties - - 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 - - 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 - - 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? - - A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
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- The Fictionary - - Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
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- Fun With Words - - Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
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- Funnyname.com - - A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
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- Fun-with-words.com - - Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
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- Humour Articles - - Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
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- Keepers of Lists - - A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.
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- Language Fun - - Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
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- Loquacious Lipograms - - Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
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- Lost in Translation - - See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
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- The Mother of All Excuses Place - - Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes.
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- Ms-Sam-Antics - - Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
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- National Public Radio - - New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
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- Opundo - - Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
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- Phobias - - Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
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- Science Wordplay - - Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.
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- Scorpio Tales - - Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
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- Similes Galore - - A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
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- Sources of the Word Yahoo - - Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
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- Stink Pink - - Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
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- Stupid Questions - - Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
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- Unscramble.net - - Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
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- Vocab Vitamins - - A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
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- Word Games Software - - Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
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- 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.
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- Word Skit - - Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
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- 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.
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- The Word Spy - - Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
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- Word-Jumble.com - - Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
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- Wordorium - - A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
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- You Grok - - Use the clues to determine the subject of the puzzle. Inspired by Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land.â€.
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