Wordplay
Wordplay
Wordplay Links
- The Nautical Origins for Some Common Expressions Explaining the marine origins of some common words, figures of speech, and everyday expressions.
- AwayMessages.com Funny and cool away messages for you to use on such services as AOL, AIM, and ICQ.
- The Palindromist Magazine An offline journal for people who write and enjoy palindromes.
- Database of American Proprietary Eponyms List of American brand names which have fallen into general use.
- Lost in Translation Uses the Systran translation software to transfer a given sentence from English to five different languages and back.
- Unwords.com A collection of made-up words and definitons created by everyday people, out of necessity or for humor.
- Smurf the Web The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon.
- Fun-with-words.com Dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language.
- Dislexicon Word Generator Contains Dislexicon generates new made up words and definitions for the words.
- The Pangram Page Contains an introduction to pangrams including why they are needed and examples, which are highlighed in purple.
- How to translate "Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." How to say the phrase in dozens of languages from Ape to Welch.
- Word Morphs Contains a script which will find words which are one letter different from the one specified.
- 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.
- The Collective Noun Page Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
- Verbisms Features words with double meanings, like "Egg Rolls".
- Sanskrit Puns in the Beggar's Opera Researched essay on John Gay's play and its Sanskrit wordplay connections.
- 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).
- Wordage: The Game of Words Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
- Phobias Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
- Apostrophe's Rule A site on Apostrophes and how to use them properly.
- Janet's Wordplay Site Articles, puzzles, and quizzes. Dozens of features about having fun with words.
- Web Frequency Indexer Contains a script that shows the frequency of a word in some text that is entered. Allows list to be sorted by the least to most, most to least or alphabetically.
- 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.
- The Pangram Page Contains definition and lists of pangrams. Includes some in French and Latin as well as English pangrams.
- Stink Pink Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
- Words and Stuff A occasional column on words and word play.
- Teach the stupid sausage Here you can teach a little cute sausage definitions of words.
- Piece of Pi MadLibs Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
- Wordies on the Web Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying or cliché.
- The Devil's Dictionary Random Definitions Quotes from Ambrose Bierce's satirical definition selected at random. Complete text also available.
- Wireless Power Word Game Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
- Lost in Translation A collection of poor translations into English from sales and travel brochures, as well as the hospitality trade.
- Mockok.com A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences. Currently over 2,000 archived.
- SadMan Software: Wordplay Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
- The Unjumbler Word jumble puzzle solver, and anagram finder.
- Humour Articles Humor collection of many years compiled from magazines, newspapers, emails and the web. Why Ask Why, Computers' Daft Definitions and Deft Definitions Collection included.
- Poetry Magnet Fun Make poems with virtual poetry magnets. Submit your poems via email and have them posted.
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