Wordplay Articles

Exclusive Fun-with-words.com Wordplay Articles

• Dord – the non-existent word that crept into Webster's Dictionary
• NYC in Wingdings and Webdings Fonts
• Funny Signs from Around the World
  A collection of hilarious photos of funny signs and notices.
• Phobia Words – dictionary list of fears
  600 words ending in –phobia meaning fear or hatred.
• Cide Words – dictionary list of killing
  200 words ending in –cide meaning killing or destruction.

Articles Previously Published Elsewhere

• Telephomnemonics
• Hyp-Hens
• Boston's Apostrophe Man
• Comical Business Names
• Double English Double Dutch
• World's First Crossword
• Easy to Say; Hard to Spell
• Being Barry Jones
• World's Longest Place Name
• Moolah, Marigolds... Macaroni!?!
• Anagram Newspaper Nonsense
• Travel from Å to Y by Internet
• World's Shortest Poem
• Tough Ough Names

Books and Newspaper Articles

• The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
  We have Bierce's complete The Devil's Dictionary online for you to enjoy.
• Bob Levey's Neologisms Competition
  Every month readers of Bob Levey's column in the Washington Post are invited to invent a witty new word for a chosen nameless phenomenon. Read some of the hilarious entries for past competitions.
• Bob Levey's Funny T-Shirt Slogans
  Funny slogans spotted on T-shirts across the world.

Fun-with-words.com Book Reviews

• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English Language: Second Edition (Hardcover) by David Crystal
• Language and the Internet: by David Crystal
• Introducing Linguistics: by R. L. Trask and Bill Mayblin
• Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation: US Edition by Lynne Truss
• Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation: British Edition by Lynne Truss
• Sit on a Potato Pan, Otis!: More Palindromes by Jon Agee
• Jumbo Shrimp: The Ultimate Oxymoron Book by Bruce Fein and John Accurso
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of The English Language: Second Edition (Softcover) by David Crystal
• English Words: History and Structure by Robert Stockwell and Donka Minkova
• Go Hang a Salami, I'm a Lasagna Hog!: And Other Palindromes by Jon Agee
• So Many Dynamos!: And Other Palindromes by Jon Agee
• Pun Demon I Am!: by Alan Lewis and Frank Holmes
• The Landscape of Place-Names: by Margaret Gelling and Ann Cole
• The Street Names of England: by Adrian Room
• Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English by James Cochrane
• Warm Voices Rearranged: Anagram Record Reviews by Brandan Kearney and Gregg Turkington

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