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National Public Radio - http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge. |
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The Word Spy - http://wordspy.com
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries. |
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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'. |
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A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia - http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html
Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia. |
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Fun-with-words.com - http://www.fun-with-words.com/
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay. |
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Stink Pink - http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html
Questions have answers with two rhyming words. |
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Opundo - http://www.opundo.com
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour. |
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Bovilexics.com - http://www.bovilexics.com/
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts. |
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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. |
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Phobias - http://www.geocities.com/nallen20/FunnyPhobias.txt
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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Word-Jumble.com - http://www.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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Unscramble.net - http://www.unscramble.net
Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online. |
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Euler's Day Off - http://www.eulersdayoff.org
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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Sayings and Rhetoric - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/JOKES/sayings.html
Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions. |
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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. |
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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". |
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Humour Articles - http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm
Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Dave's Fun Words - http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
Categorized list of words which are fun to say. |