The Atlantic Online: Lost in Translation - Article explores the then-available online translation programs and their strengths and shortcomings. Some humorous examples of mistranslated phrases.
AwayMessages.com - Away messages for you to use on such services as AOL, AIM, and ICQ.
Bovilexics.com - Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia - Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
The Collective Noun Page - Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
Condit's Linguistical Predicament - Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
Confuzzled Dictionary - This is an online dictionary of strange and bizarre words. Feel free to browse or add your own.
Cryptagram - Cryptagram is the Windows version of CryptoQuote and WordSearch.
Cryptic Quoter - Functional online cryptogram machine and solver.
Dave's Fun Words - Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
Dead Name Game - The object is to slightly alter the name of a deceased celebrity to reflect their passing. Accepts submissions.
Dictionary Of Wordplay - A collection of puns, tomswiftys, doofinisms, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
Dislexicon Word Generator - Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
Fictionary Dictionary - Online edition of the popular parlor game for word lovers. Improve your vocabulary while making up phony definitions for obscure words.
Fun With Words - Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
Funny Names Site - Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats to make you smile.
Fun-with-words.com - Dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language.
The Hooter List - Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
Humour Articles - Collection of various forms of wordplay compiled from media and the web. Why Ask Why, Computers' Daft Definitions and Deft Definitions Collection included.
Janet's Wordplay Site - Child-oriented articles, puzzles, and quizzes about having fun with words.
Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection - A collection of palindromes, phrases that spell the same forwards as backwards, with links to relevant resources on the web and elsewhere.
List of Silly Names - Includes towns, marriages, silly science and universities. Accepts submissions.
Loquacious Lipograms - Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
Lost in Translation - See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
Mad Ape Den - Articles and messageboards on a variety of topics with all words over three letters off-limits.
Mockok.com - A large collection of palindromes, focusing on palindromic single sentences. Currently over 2,000 archived.
Ms-Sam-Antics - Daffynitions, puns, haiku and word play. Accepts contributions.
Name That Porno - Take the title of a standard movie and rename it with a porno theme. Submissions accepted.
Name Wordplay - Example: If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.
Word Games Software - Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
Word Masher - Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary.
Word Soup Without Vowels - 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.
The Word Spy - Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
Wordage: The Game of Words - Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
WordBall - The viewer competes against a computer in a baseball-like word-game.
Wordies on the Web - Translate these arrangements of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying or cliché.
Word-Jumble.com - Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
Words and Stuff - A occasional column on words and word play.
Words Ending in -gry - Guess the three English words ending in -gry. The first two are given, but the third?
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