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PLEASE NOTE: I am happily retired in Port Townsend, Washington. I have deactivated Garbl's Writing Resources and am no longer adding, revising, or updating writing resources in this section or any other section.. But please continue to visit and use my free Editorial Style and Usage Manual, Consise Writing Guide and Plain English Writing Guide. I update their content occasionally.

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

Ann Owed to the Spelling Checker--This entire poem went through a spelling checker without a single mistake being caught.

Antagonyms--Words with multiple meanings that contradict each other.

Chet Meek's Page of Puns ... --Word plays, catchy phrases and other foolishness.

DubyaSpeak.com--A site dedicated to chronicling the misstatements of America's mangler-in-chief.

English is tough stuff--"Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters near Paris found English to be an easy language ... until they tried to pronounce it. To help them discard an array of accents, the verses below were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months at hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself."

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.

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.

The Gobbledygook Generator--This Plain English Campaign tool will provide you with meaningless, empty phrases that make you look "in the know."

The Heteronym Homepage--Words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently.

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?"

Steven Wright Jokes--This deadpan stand-up comedian really has a way with words, to turn a phrase, so to speak.

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.

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?!

RhymeZone--Type in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms and more.

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.

Self-reference--This sentence defines self reference by example and notes that this site has many other examples of this fascinating concept.

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.

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.

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

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Updated March 5, 2016.