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Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
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Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Puns As known by anyone familiar with the play, the names are highly contrived (Filch, Crook-Finger'd Jack This essay will show that the names of most of the characters are Sanskritic hybrids, mixed with English. What many people do not know...Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
http://www.fun-with-words.com/
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html
Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
http://www.cmcom.com/wordage/
Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
http://www.simes.clara.co.uk/programs/wordplay.htm
How to say this phrase in various languages.
http://yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html
Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
http://www.geocities.com/vasudevanvrv/articles.htm
Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
http://www.geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/yahoo1.html
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun
A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
http://wordplay.narod.ru/
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
http://www.opundo.com
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
http://wordspy.com
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
http://rinkworks.com/words
Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
http://www.joebobbriggs.com/list/hooterlist.txt
10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
http://www.gadzillionthings.net/
Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
http://users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/rhetoric.htm
Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/gradgrind.html
Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9006/stupid.html
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank
Rewords familiar phrases, idioms, and aphorisms with grandiose, academic words and descriptions.
http://www.obfuscations.com
Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/condit.html
See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
http://tashian.com/multibabel
Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/tate.htm
Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~diab0011/ignore.html
Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
http://www.word-jumble.com
Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
http://d.ch.free.fr/logic2uk.html
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
http://www.bovilexics.com/
A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
http://www.vocabvitamins.com/
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.
http://www.geocities.com/gabrudos/sopa.htm
A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
http://www.datafilebank.com/similesgalore/
Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary.
http://www.aurete.com/wordmasher
Includes towns, marriages, silly science and universities. Accepts submissions.
http://www.silly-names.co.uk/
Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.
http://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/...2001/weblinks/physics_jokes.html
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
http://www.npr.org/programs/wesun/puzzle/
A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/printthread.php?threadid=17649
Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
http://www.brainteaser-world.com...l-words/vocal-words-archives.htm
The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
http://www.bridge.net/~labush/lalmwk20.htm
A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
http://www.familytravelgames.com
Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8797/JOKES/sayings.html
Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies.
http://www.aflockofsegers.com
Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
http://www.witwords.com/fictionary.cfm
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc
Rearrange a five-by-five grid of letters to form words in crossword fashion. There is a daily puzzle with no registration.
http://www.eulersdayoff.org
A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
http://www.wordorium.blogspot.com
Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
http://www.unscramble.net
Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
http://corsinet.com/
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html
A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.html
Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
http://www.wordskit.com/
Use the clues to determine the subject of the puzzle. Inspired by Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land.”
http://www.yougrok.com
Definition of this style of play on words, a collection of original and previously-known examples, and links to other collections.
http://scraps.divinest-sense.com/fun/tom-swifties.php
A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
http://www.funnyname.com/
A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.
http://www.keepersoflists.org/
Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes.
http://madtbone.tripod.com/