Wordplay

Obscure & Fun

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 3

Lovely, pointless, or both?

17 of the Finest Words for Drinking

Try these out at your next happy hour

Galaxy Brain: 10 Words for Deep Thoughts

What's (another word for) the big idea?

Your Favorite Band is in the Dictionary

10 bands you can look up and queue up

30 Ways to Tell the Future

Let us know if any of these work for you

12 Words from the Wrong Side of the Law

Crime doesn't pay, but vocabulary might

Words For Things You Didn't Know Have Names, Vol. 4

Sitzmarks! Jarkmen!! Pronking!!!

Nine Obscure Beer-Related Words

Crack open a cold (or warm and eggy) one and enjoy

Ahoy! Ten Words for Talking Like a Pirate

Whether on International Talk Like a Pirate Day or any day!

Words That are Their Own Opposites

Do I contradict myself?

Another Ten Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary

Simple But Intelligent Word Choices, Vol. 3

A Wicked Awesome List of New England Words

Things you may overhear when you park your car at Harvard Yard

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Get your mind into the gutter

10 Uncommon Emotional Words

Once more with (obscure) feeling

11 Bookish Words for Book Lovers

You'll enjoy these words more than a bibliotaph in a bookery.

9 More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

How to tell your butoxy from your hawsehole

Even More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Get off your plum duff and check these out

From Auto-Tune to Zipper: Eight Products that Became Words

Va-va-vuvuzela

9 Weird Words in Moby-Dick

All are great; one is offal

'Cattywampus' and Other Funny-Sounding Words

Feeling 'bumfuzzled' or have the 'collywobbles'?

12 Underrated Words That Deserve More Love

These are some good words

Winning Scrabble Words for Everyday People

You don't have to be a pro to play these words.

What Is an Eggcorn?

And how did it get that name?
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