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• - Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
  
• - Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
  
• - Wordplay in, about or involving Sanskrit.
  
• - Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.
  
• - Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
  
• - See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
  
• - Includes towns, marriages, silly science and universities. Accepts submissions.
  
• - Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary.
  
• - Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
  
• - A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
  
• - Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
  
• - Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
  
• - Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
  
• - A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
  
• - Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
  
• - A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
  
• - Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
  
• - A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
  
• - Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
  
• - Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
  
• - Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
  
• - Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
  
• - The viewer competes against a computer in a baseball-like word-game.
  
• - Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
  
• - Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
  
• - A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
  
• - Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
  
• - New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
  
• - Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
  
• - Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
  
• - Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
  
• - Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
  
• - Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
  
• - 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
  
• - A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
  
• - Rearrange a five-by-five grid of letters to form words in crossword fashion. There is a daily puzzle with no registration.
  
• - Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
  
• - A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
  
• - Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
  
• - A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
  
• - Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
  
• - Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
  
• - Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
  
• - Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
  
• - Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
  
• - How to say this phrase in various languages.
  
• - Rewords familiar phrases, idioms, and aphorisms with grandiose, academic words and descriptions.
  
• - Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
  
• - Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
  
• - Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
  
• - Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
  
• - Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
  
• - Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
  
• - Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
  
• - Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies.
  
• - The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
  
• - Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.