Humor Wordplay
Below are some useful links about Wordplay on Humor:
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- Arts: Education: Language Arts: Games (5)
- Games: Board Games: Words and Trivia: Scrabble: Tips and Word Lists (19)
- Recreation: Humor: Useless Pages: Language (10)
- Reference: Dictionaries: Acronyms (48)
- Shopping: Home and Garden: Kitchen and Dining: Gadgets: Magnets: Magnetic Word Kits (4)
| Answers to Rhetorical Questions - Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects. |
| Before and After - The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight". |
| Bovilexics.com - Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts. |
| 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 Collective Noun Page - Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'. |
| Corsinet.com - Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes. |
| Dave's Fun Words - Categorized list of words which are fun to say. |
| Dislexicon Word Generator - Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them. |
| 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. |
| Family Travel Games - A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed. |
| Faulkner or Machine Translation? - A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English. |
| Fun With Words - Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia. |
| Funny Names Site - Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats. |
| Funnyname.com - A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book. |
| Fun-with-words.com - Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay. |
| Gadzillion Things to Think About - 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions. |
| Humour Articles - Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams. |
| Keepers of Lists - A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public. |
| Language Fun - Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances. |
| LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions - Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Ms-Sam-Antics - Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included. |
| National Public Radio - New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge. |
| "Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." - How to say this phrase in various languages. |
| Opundo - Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, 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. |
| Piece of Pi MadLibs - Site featuring a collection of madlibs. |
| Sanskritpuns99 - A personal collection of essays and examples of the form, including parodies of famous works. |
| Sayings and Rhetoric - Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions. |
| Scorpio Tales - Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English. |
| Stink Pink - Questions have answers with two rhyming words. |
| Stupid Questions - Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions. |
| The Tate Family Members - Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name. |
| Text Messages - A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages. |
| Unscramble.net - Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online. |
| Untruisms and One-Trick Words - Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'. |
| Vocab Vitamins - A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it. |
| Vocal Names Riddles - Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words. |
| Word Games Software - Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. |
| 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. |
| Word Skit - Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations. |
| 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. |
| The Word Spy - Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries. |
| Wordage: The Game of Words - Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths. |
| Word-Jumble.com - Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers. |
 | Wordorium - A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers. |