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"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head.": How to say this phrase in various languages.- yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html |
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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.- members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html |
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aflockofsegers.com- www.aflockofsegers.com/ |
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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".- www.bridge.net/~labush/lalmwk20.htm |
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Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay: Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.- geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/bo.html |
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blogspot.com- www.wordorium.blogspot.com/ |
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Bovilexics.com: Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.- www.bovilexics.com/ |
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Dave's Fun Words: Categorized list of words which are fun to say.- uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html |
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Dictionary Of Wordplay: A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.- wordplay.narod.ru/ |
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Dislexicon Word Generator: Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.- www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc |
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eulersdayoff.org- www.eulersdayoff.org/ |
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familytravelgames.com- www.familytravelgames.com/ |
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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.- www.ee.ucla.edu/~simkin/sounds_like_faulkner.html |
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Fun With Words: Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.- rinkworks.com/words |
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Fun-with-words.com: Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.- www.fun-with-words.com/ |
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Gadzillion Things to Think About: 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.- www.gadzillionthings.net/ |
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Humour Articles: Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.- www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm |
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Language Fun: Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.- home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun |
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LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions: Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.- users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/rhetoric.htm |
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List of Silly Names: Includes towns, marriages, silly science and universities. Accepts submissions.- www.silly-names.co.uk/ |
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Loquacious Lipograms: Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.- phrontistery.50megs.com/lipogram.html |
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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.- tashian.com/multibabel |
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Name Wordplay: Example: If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.- www.jokes2go.com/lists/list50.html |
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National Public Radio: New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.- www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/ |
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obfuscations.com- www.obfuscations.com/ |
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opundo.com- www.opundo.com/ |
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SadMan Software: Wordplay: Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.- www.simes.clara.co.uk/programs/wordplay.htm |
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Sanskrit Humor: Wordplay in, about or involving Sanskrit.- sanskrit.bhaarat.com/Dale/Humor.html |
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Science Wordplay: Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.- laser.physics.sunysb.edu/~wise/wise187/janfeb2001/weblinks/physics_jokes.html |
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Scorpio Tales: Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.- users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank |
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Similes Galore: A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.- www.datafilebank.com/similesgalore/ |
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Stink Pink: Questions have answers with two rhyming words.- highhopes.com/rhymetime.html |
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Text Messages: A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.- www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html |
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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'.- www.ojohaven.com/collectives/ |
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The Fictionary: Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.- www.witwords.com/fictionary.cfm |
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The Hooter List: Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.- www.joebobbriggs.com/list/hooterlist.txt |
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The Tate Family Members: Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.- home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm |
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Thinking on Words: A whimsical view on some words and expressions.- www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printthread.php?threadid=17649 |
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Untruisms and One-Trick Words: Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.- users.ox.ac.uk/~diab0011/ignore.html |
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Vocab Vitamins: A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.- www.vocabvitamins.com/ |
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Vocal Names Riddles: Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.- www.brainteaser-world.com/puzzles/vocal-words/vocal-words-archives.htm |
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Word Games Software: Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.- d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html |
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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.- www.aurete.com/wordmasher |
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word-jumble.com- www.word-jumble.com/ |
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Wordage: The Game of Words: Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.- www.cmcom.com/wordage/ |
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WordBall: The viewer competes against a computer in a baseball-like word-game.- www.aquiz.com/WordBall/WordBall.htm |
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wordspy.com- wordspy.com/ |
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wsu.edu- www.wsu.edu/~brians/gradgrind.html |
