Open Directory - Recreation: Humor: Wordplay
See also: This category in other languages: - How to say this phrase in various languages. - Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia. - Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts. - Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes. - Categorized list of words which are fun to say. - Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them. - Definition of this style of play on words, a collection of original and previously-known examples, and links to other collections. - A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed. - A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English. - Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia. - Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay. - Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats. - A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book. - 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions. - Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected. - Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter. - See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results. - Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour. - Site featuring a collection of madlibs. - Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English. - Questions have answers with two rhyming words. - A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages. - Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'. - Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes. - Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name. - Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries. - Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online. - Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'. - A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it. - Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words. - Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. - Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary. - Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations. - A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
