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Welcome to Garbl's Word Play Links! Here are fun word sites for your amusement and, perhaps, enlightenment.

line Ann Owed to the Spelling Checker--This entire poem went through a spelling checker without a single mistake being caught.
bullet Antagonyms--Words with multiple meanings that contradict each other. 
bullet Chet Meek's Page of Puns ... --Word plays, catchy phrases and other foolishness. 
bullet DubyaSpeak.com--A site dedicated to chronicling the misstatements of America's mangler-in-chief. 
bullet English is tough stuff--"Read aloud, with a friend! After all, laughter is the true universal language!"
bullet The Enigma Device--A new word game every day in which you swap letter pairs in scrambled well-known or humorous quotations until the originals are restored.
bullet fun-with-words--A site dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities and oddities of the English language, with sections on pangrams, anagrams, tongue twisters spoonerisms and more.
bullet The Gobbledygook Generator--This Plain English Campaign tool will provide you with meaningless, empty phrases that make you look "in the know."
bullet The Heteronym Homepage--Words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently.
bullet Mr. Gradgrind's Literal Answers to Rhetorical Questions--Responses to questions like "How high the moon?" "What shall we do with a drunken sailor?" "What's up, doc?"
bullet Steven Wright Jokes--This deadpan stand-up comedian really has a way with words, to turn a phrase, so to speak.
bullet Never-Say-Neverisms--Language columnist and author William Safire's witty but useful list of 30 writing rules, Fumblerules: A Lighthearted Guide to Grammar and Good Usage.
bullet Punpunpun.com--Puns of the day, puns of the week, punsters of the year, opportunities to share puns and even a brief history of the pun ... what more could you want?!
bullet RhymeZone--Type in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms and more.
bullet A Seattle Lexicon: Lingo from the Far Corner--An interpretive guide on slang, place names, shorthand expressions and nicknames for geography, places, streets, events, coffee, fish and miscellaneous leftovers in my hometown.
bullet Self-reference--This sentence defines self reference by example and notes that this site has many other examples of this fascinating concept.
Metamagical Themas
bullet Self-Referential and Other Nonsensical Sentences--A collection of self-referential and other types of confusing sentences, many of which are from Douglas Hofstadter's wonderful book, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern.
bullet Word.Net's Ambigram.Com--Ambigrams are words or phrases written so they can be read right side up or upside down; includes a fun Ambigram Generator.
bullet Words and Wordplays--A gallimaufry of logodaedaly and verbalistic legerdemain.

* It's OK to make mistakes. That's why pencils have erasers. 

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Updated July 19, 2010.