Wordplay

» "Oh my God! There's an axe in my head."
   How to say this phrase in various languages.

   
   http://yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html

» 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://jeff560.tripod.com/words.html

» Answers to Rhetorical Questions
   Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.

   
   http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind.html

» Before and After
   The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".

   
   http://www.bridge.net/~labush/lalmwk20.htm

» Bovilexics.com
   Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.

   
   http://www.bovilexics.com/

» Corsinet.com
   Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.

   
   http://corsinet.com/

» Dave's Fun Words
   Categorized list of words which are fun to say.

   
   http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html

» Dislexicon Word Generator
   Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.

   
   http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc

» 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.

   
   http://www.without-feathers.com/bits/fun-and-games/reads/tom-swifties.php

» Family Travel Games
   A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.

   
   http://www.familytravelgames.com

» Faulkner or Machine Translation?
   A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.

   
   http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.html

» Fun With Words
   Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.

   
   http://rinkworks.com/words

» Fun-with-words.com
   Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.

   
   http://www.fun-with-words.com/

» Funny Names Site
   Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.

   
   http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/

» Funnyname.com
   A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.

   
   http://www.funnyname.com/

» Gadzillion Things to Think About
   10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.

   
   http://www.gadzillionthings.net/

» Humour Articles
   Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.

   
   http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm

» Keepers of Lists
   A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.

   
   http://www.keepersoflists.org/

» Language Fun
   Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.

   
   http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun

» LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions
   Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.

   
   http://users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/rhetoric.htm

» Loquacious Lipograms
   Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.

   
   http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.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

» Ms-Sam-Antics
   Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.

   
   http://mssamantics.us

» National Public Radio
   New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.

   
   http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/

» Opundo
   Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.

   
   http://www.opundo.com

» 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

» Piece of Pi MadLibs
   Site featuring a collection of madlibs.

   
   http://madlibs.freeservers.com/

» Sanskritpuns99
   A personal collection of essays and examples of the form, including parodies of famous works.

   
   http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/

» Sayings and Rhetoric
   Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.

   
   http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/JOKES/sayings.html

» Scorpio Tales
   Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.

   
   http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank

» Stink Pink
   Questions have answers with two rhyming words.

   
   http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html

» Stupid Questions
   Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.

   
   http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9006/stupid.html

» Text Messages
   A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.

   
   http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html

» 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/

» 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.

   
   http://madtbone.tripod.com/

» The Tate Family Members
   Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.

   
   http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm

» The Word Spy
   Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.

   
   http://wordspy.com

» Thinking on Words
   A whimsical view on some words and expressions.

   
   http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printthread.php?threadid=17649

» Unscramble.net
   Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.

   
   http://www.unscramble.net

» 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://richard.tangle-wood.co.uk/

» Vocab Vitamins
   A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.

   
   http://www.vocabvitamins.com/

» Vocal Names Riddles
   Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.

   
   http://www.brainteaser-world.com/puzzles/vocal-words/vocal-words-archives.htm

» Word Games Software
   Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.

   
   http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html

» 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.

   
   http://www.aurete.com/wordmasher

» Word Skit
   Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.

   
   http://www.wordskit.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

» 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

» 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/

» Wordorium
   A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.

   
   http://www.wordorium.blogspot.com