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  • "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.
  • 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).
  • Answers to Rhetorical Questions - This time, somebody has the answers to the questions....
  • 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 Dilemma - 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.
  • 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.
  • Kael's Rhetorical Questions - Questions which may never have an answer.
  • 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?
  • 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 Wordplay - Example: If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • SadMan Software: Wordplay - Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
  • Sanskrit Humor - Wordplay in, about or involving Sanskrit.
  • Scorpio Tales - Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
  • 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 such as this: :-).
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • Verbisms - Features words with double meanings, like "Egg Rolls".
  • 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-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 - A occasional column on words and word play.
  • Words Ending in -gry - Guess the three English words ending in -gry. The first two are given, but the third?
  • Search our Wiki for Humor Wordplay - Find more information about this subject by clicking here

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