NaviQuest - Humor Wordplay The Wordplay Website Anagrams, Palindromes, Tongue Twisters, Etymology, Word Puzzles,spoonerisms, oxymora(Oxymorons), Malapropisms, Pangrams, Mnemonics, http://www.naviquest.com/nqhumor/wordplay/
NaviQuest - Humor Wordplay Anagrams The Wordplay Website ANAGRAMS, Palindromes, Tongue Twisters, Etymology, Word Puzzles,spoonerisms, oxymora(Oxymorons), Malapropisms, Pangrams, Mnemonics, http://www.naviquest.com/nqhumor/wordplay/anagrams/
Sites Associated With Reading/Writing Of The BigList Word Etymology from FunWith-Words, has some examples of word etymology but alsoincludes some examples of spoonerisms, pangrams, oxymora, palindromes, etc. http://astro.temple.edu/~psmith/biglist/writing.htm
Extractions: Last checked 11/26/2000 Press CTRL/F to search this page. Writer's Style Guides Writing Across the Curriculum Writer's Guidelines is a collection of guidelines for articles of all kinds. Pulitzer Prize Winners The Slot contains highly opinionated suggestions about writing, punctuation, etc. Paradigm Writing Assistant helps find things to write about. Writer's Free Reference has links to all sorts of documents that are associated with writing. Word Etymology from Fun-With-Words, has some examples of word etymology but also includes some examples of spoonerisms, pangrams, oxymora, palindromes, etc. Word Etymology has some great etymologies. Etymologic - Word Etymology Game lets you guess at a multiple choice test of the etymology of a word. Everyday Spelling is designed to assist teachers of spelling but the rest of us can use it also. Word Detective specializes in origins of words or phrases. Idiom Site talks about the origins of words or phrases. World Wide Words is dedicated to words including their history and origin. Strange and Unusual Dictionaries includes the Dictionary of All Vowel Words and the One Letter Word Dictionary (about 700 entries). Also includes reviews of books about words.
The Jer Zone Tongue Twisters, Anagrams, Palindromes, spoonerisms, Pangrams, oxymora, Mnemonics,Etymology, Word Puzzles and more at FunWith-Words.com comment? http://www.jerryrig.com/log/2002/01/04/
Extractions: Just finishing up renovating a bedroom. Last year I put new floor down in the living room which required separate backing foam, glue, and lots of pounding and swearing. This time I went with Pergo Prodigy which I found at a nearby Home Depot . This stuff comes in big slats (app 11"x47") has the backing already attached and doesn't require glue. It looks pretty good, at least better than wood web table backgrounds look. A series of energy related articles this morning from MIT's Technology Review . First there's an article on the current state of energy: Getting over oil . Then on to future power with the Land-Installed Marine-Powered Energy Transformer just installed on the Scottish isle of Islay from Wavegen . Meanwhile, for us waveless power consumers, the future is looking like it might be
Www.slashcat.com: /Recreation/Humor/Wordplay/ BadPuns.com Site for puns, spoonerisms, and other wordplays. Alsoincludes a collection of punny cartoons, plus links and webrings. http://www.slashcat.com/Recreation/Humor/Wordplay/
Extractions: A Dictionary of the Absurd - Compilation of a new dictionary, designed to warp English. Attila the Pun - Puns with an occasional international flavor. Author's Defense - Claims that Jonathan Swift's love of wordplay and languages is fertile ground for Sanskritic wordplay in Gulliver's Travels, including the fact that Gulliver gave permission for readers to "adjust" the story. BadPuns.com - Site for puns, spoonerisms, and other wordplays. Also includes a collection of punny cartoons, plus links and webrings. Big Puns - Covers family, law, cows, mathematics and conmen. Offers a free humor newsletter and links. Boovietoons - A series of cartoons punning various movies of the past. Borg Puns - Daffynitions of "Borg" words. Cartoon Captions - A series of captionless cartoons. Fill in an answer, then see those supplied by Professor Zounds. Chet Meek's Page of Puns - Wide-ranging list of puns and wordplay, many of which are rhetorical in nature. Gladly accepts submissions from viewers. Commentary on Puns - James Merrill's overview on punning.
Wordplay - CrocCrawler , Wordplay The Wordplay Website ANAGRAMS, Palindromes, Tongue Twisters, Etymology, Word Puzzles,spoonerisms, oxymora(Oxymorons), Malapropisms, Pangrams, Mnemonics http://www.croccrawler.com/cgi-bin/nph-cyber/111101A/http/www.croccrawler.com/cg
Extractions: Mindless moments, dumb diversions, comic dialects, useless stories, bizarre holidays, bozo criminals, wordplay, anagram fun, your birthday, puns, elevator games and silly stuff to soothe frazzled nerves so have some laughs, go fly a kite, or take a side trip away from your worries, with a laugh guarantee
Paw Prints Links Archives Fun With Words palindrome for Rosie is God saw I was dog. ; spoonerisms Phrases, sentences, or Oxymoraliterary figures of speech usually composed of a pair of neighbouring http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9910/ReadingRm/links/fun_with_words.html
Extractions: http://fun-with-words.com/ un-with-words.com is the website dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language. They have 12 sections, each dedicated to a different kind of wordplay: Anagrams: A rearrangement of the letters in a word or phrase, using each letter once, and only once, in the word or phrase created.
Witticisms, Riddles it is riddled with contradictions. Ever noticed that it's simplyimpossible to find seriously funny oxymora? The only choice is http://home.planet.nl/~blade068/languagefun/clever.htm
Extractions: A specialist is a person who knows a lot about little and goes on knowing more and more about less and less until finally he knows everything about nothing. A manager on the other hand, is a person who knows little about a lot and goes on knowing less and less about more and more until finally he knows nothing about everything . Heaven
DUMB THINGS PEOPLE SAY! W O R D W I L D W E B ! Dumb. Things. People. Say! These pages constitutewhat some of my friends call the book. I collect all sorts http://therussler.tripod.com/dtps/
Extractions: W O R D W I L D W E B These pages constitute what some of my friends call "the book." I collect all sorts of expressions that sound funny if you think about them (and have the same kind of twisted mind I do). Those around me worry that some things that come out of their mouths might be "bookable." Accident Reports Advertisements Ballestraisms Church Bulletin Clippings ... etc. I will add to these as things come my way. (E-mails are welcome!) Word Wild Web Dumb Things People Say Elmwood Ct. E-mail
