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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.
  The Word Spy http://wordspy.com
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
  A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia http://jeff560.tripod.com/words.html
Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
  Vocab Vitamins http://www.vocabvitamins.com/
A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
  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'.
  Lost in Translation http://tashian.com/multibabel
See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
  Fun With Words http://rinkworks.com/words
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
  Fun-with-words.com http://www.fun-with-words.com/
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
  Loquacious Lipograms http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
  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.
  Gadzillion Things to Think About http://www.gadzillionthings.net/
10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
  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.
  Opundo http://www.opundo.com
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
  Answers to Rhetorical Questions http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind.html
Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
  Word Skit http://www.wordskit.com/
Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
  Sayings and Rhetoric http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/JOKES/sayings.html
Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
  Bovilexics.com http://www.bovilexics.com/
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
  Word Masher http://www.aurete.com/wordmasher
Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary.
  Stink Pink http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
  Text Messages http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
  Piece of Pi MadLibs http://madlibs.freeservers.com/
Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
  Stupid Questions http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9006/stupid.html
Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
  Dislexicon Word Generator http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
  Wordorium http://www.wordorium.blogspot.com
A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
  Unscramble.net http://www.unscramble.net
Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
  Humour Articles http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm
Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
  Wordage: The Game of Words http://www.cmcom.com/wordage/
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
  Funny Names Site http://users.breathe.com/ionabigyot/
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
  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.
  Dave's Fun Words http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
  Word Soup Without Vowels http://www.geocities.com/gabrudos/sopa.htm
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.
  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.
  Scorpio Tales http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
  The Tate Family Members http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm
Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
  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.
  Ms-Sam-Antics http://mssamantics.us
Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
  Family Travel Games http://www.familytravelgames.com
A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
  Vocal Names Riddles http://www.brainteaser-world.com/puzzles/vocal-words/vocal-words-archives.htm
Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
  Word Games Software http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html
Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
  "Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." http://yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html
How to say this phrase in various languages.
  Keepers of Lists http://www.keepersoflists.org/
A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.
  Corsinet.com http://corsinet.com/
Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
  Untruisms and One-Trick Words http://richard.tangle-wood.co.uk/
Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
  Funnyname.com http://www.funnyname.com/
A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
  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.
  Language Fun http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
  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".
  Sanskritpuns99 http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/
A personal collection of essays and examples of the form, including parodies of famous works.

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