Erin Bouma's Recommended
WORD PLAY
http://www.fun-with-words.comThis site catalogs amusing peculiarities/oddities of English. Entertaining and educational. Over 500 pages of word puzzles, games, amazing lists, and fun facts. Funny (real) signs from around the world of mangled English. Subscribe to their free newsletter.
http://www.wordplays.com/p/indexMany online word games and puzzles. Register for free to play anagrams, words in a word, Boogle, Scrabble, etc. against the clock and keep your scores. In 7 languages (but not Russian yet).
http://www.jimwegryn.com/Words/Words.phpA Barrelful of Words. A collection of over 2,500 American English words and phrases in humorous context. I would say that you can learn a lot about English here and have a good laugh at the same time.
http://www.ojohaven.com/collectivesHumorous (and real) collective nouns. ex: “an absence of waiters”, “a calendar of saints”, “a nag of grandparents”, etc.
http://www.sarangworld.com/WORDMORPHWord morphing. Changing words, one letter at a time, into another/contrasting word. Ex: “cat” to “dog” or “Venus” to “Earth.”
http://www.wordies.caHere you need to translate the arrangement of letters, numbers and/or symbols into a familiar phrase, saying or cliché. Problem solving. ex: “R/E/A/D/I/N/G” – “Reading between the lines”.
http://www.hoadworks.com/gamesindex.htm“Vocabaret”. Mostly advanced word play and games. Requires some hard thinking but answers provided. Also Children’s Games with Lit and Bio Quizes, challenging crosswords and assorted games.
http://music.yeucahat.com/song/English/9755-Word-Play~Jason-Mraz.htmlContemporary song (with music and lyrics) about word play.
http://www.drmardy.com/chiasmus/definition/definition1.shtmlChiasmus means switching word order for comic effect: “Eat to live, don’t live to eat.”
http://www.wordspy.comFun with newly coined words and phrases.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genepool/amerispeak.htmAmerispeak: expressions of American ancestors. Collected family and old time everyday expressions (many colorful) by category with a modern “translation”.
http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/grantbarrett/from_lol_to_lulz_to_lolxxxRecent catchwords from “A Way with Words” presented by blogger Grant Barrett.
http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/grantbarrett/comments/the_lore_and_rhymes_of_childrenThe Lore and Rhymes of Children in English: from “eeny-meany” to “chinny-chin”.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/unpaired.htmEnglish has several interesting words without a “pair”: Countless (but not countful), unruly (but not ruly). Why do they survive?
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling215/NewWords/index.htmlNew words/usages collected by students at Rice University (U.S.) in the 1990s.
http://www.cupola.com/wrdplay1.htmWord Play Gallery, Pictographs Puzzles.
Ex: DOTHEPE – “The inside dope.”
http://www.americansandbox.comChildren’s Mispronounced words.
http://www.aaaugh.com/dictionary/a.htmlThe Foolish Dictionary. Comic definitions.