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    1.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.
    members.aol.com
    2.Words and Stuff
     A occasional column on words and word play.
    www.kith.org
    3.Fun-with-words.com
     Dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language.
    www.fun-with-words.com
    4.Stink Pink
     Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
    highhopes.com
    5.Piece of Pi MadLibs
     Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
    madlibs.freeservers.com
    6.The Collective Noun Page
     Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
    www.ojohaven.com
    7.Mockok.com
     A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences. Currently over 2,000 archived.
    www.mockok.com
    8.The Palindromist Magazine
     An offline journal for people who write and enjoy palindromes.
    www.realchange.org
    9.Phobias
     Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
    www.geocities.com
    10.Janet's Wordplay Site
     Child-oriented articles, puzzles, and quizzes about having fun with words.
    www.jy-muggeridge.freeserve.co.uk
    11.Smurf the Web
     The WebSmurfer will translate any web page into Smurf jargon.
    websmurfer.devnull.net
    12.AwayMessages.com
     Away messages for you to use on such services as AOL, AIM, and ICQ.
    www.awaymessages.com
    13.Dislexicon Word Generator
     Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
    www.robobunny.com
    14.Wordage: The Game of Words
     Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
    www.cmcom.com
    15.SadMan Software: Wordplay
     Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
    www.simes.clara.co.uk
    16."
     How to say this phrase in various languages.
    yamara.com
    17.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.
    www.theatlantic.com
    18.Unwords.com
     A collection of made-up words and definitons created by everyday people, out of necessity or for humor.
    www.unwords.com
    19.The Devil's Dictionary Random Definitions
     Quotes from Ambrose Bierce's satirical definition selected at random. Complete text also available.
    www.boondocksnet.com
    20.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.
    www.geocities.com
    21.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.
    www.palindromes.org
    22.Sources of the word YAHOO
     , including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
    www.geocities.com
    23.Dictionary Of Wordplay
     A collection of puns, tomswiftys, doofinisms, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
    wordplay.narod.ru
    24.Dead Name Game
     The object is to slightly alter the name of a deceased celebrity to reflect their passing. Accepts submissions.
    www.redkoala.co.uk
    25.Text Messages
      messages.
    www.txt2nite.com
    26.Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay
     Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
    geocities.com
    27.Cryptagram
     Cryptagram is the Windows version of CryptoQuote and WordSearch.
    www.cryptagram.com
    28.Opundo
     Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, sdounops and other humour.
    www.opundo.com
    29.The Word Spy
     Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
    wordspy.com
    30.Dave's Fun Words
     Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
    uark.edu
    31.Loquacious Lipograms
     Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
    phrontistery.50megs.com
    32.Gadzillion Things to Think About
      Accepts submissions.
    www.gadzillionthings.net
    33.LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions
     Example: What's another word for thesaurus?
    users.owt.com
    34.Answers to Rhetorical Questions
     Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
    www.wsu.edu:8080
    35.Stupid Questions
     Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
    www.geocities.com
    36.Name Wordplay
     Example: If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.
    www.jokes2go.com
    37.Obfuscations of Celebrated Oracular Utterings
     Rewords familiar phrases, idioms, and aphorisms with grandiose, academic words and descriptions.
    www.obfuscations.com
    38.Fictionary Dictionary
     Online edition of the popular parlor game for word lovers. Improve your vocabulary while making up phony definitions for obscure words.
    www.fictionarydictionary.com
    39.Condit's Linguistical Predicament
     , typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
    geocities.com
    40.Untruisms and One-Trick Words
     Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
    users.ox.ac.uk
    41.Word-Jumble.com
     Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
    www.word-jumble.com
    42.Odford English Dictionary
     A collection of humorous new meanings of words in the English language. Visitors can submit their own entries.
    www.odford.co.uk
    43.Ms-Sam-Antics
     Daffynitions, puns, haiku and word play. Accepts contributions.
    mssamantics.us
    44.Word Games Software
     Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
    d.ch.free.fr
    45.Mad Ape Den
     Articles and messageboards on a variety of topics with all words over three letters off-limits.
    www.madapeden.com
    46.Bovilexics.com
     Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
    www.bovilexics.com
    47.Vocab Vitamins
     A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
    www.vocabvitamins.com
    48.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.
    www.geocities.com
    49.Name That Porno
     Take the title of a standard movie and rename it with a porno theme. Submissions accepted.
    namethatporno.com
    50.Travel Games
     A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
    www.familytravelgames.com
    51.Similes Galore
     A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
    www.datafilebank.com
    52.Funny Names Site
     Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats to make you smile.
    users.breathe.com
    53.Palindromelist.com
     A list of palindromes, which are words or phrases that read the same backwards or forwards.
    www.palindromelist.com
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