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Wordplay

Obscure & Fun

17 of the Finest Words for Drinking

Try these out at your next happy hour

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

Lovely, pointless, or both?

And So It Begins: 9 Words for Beginnings

Let's take it from the top.

Top 12 Sophisticated Compliments

'Urbane,' 'incisive,' and other good things to be

Words For Things You Didn't Know Have Names, Vol. 3

When thingummy and whatsit won't do

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 1

Some may be more useful than others.

7 Words for Bad Endings and Rough Situations

When it doesn't go as planned

Fan Favorites: Your Most Liked Words of the Day 2023

This is a list of the top ten Words of the Day that made you learn, laugh, and look up words a little more in 2023

Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 2

More great words, many quite pointless.

13 Unusually Long English Words

Pulchritudinous and many more

9 Irregular and Unpredictable Words

Get your pencil ready

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

Sitzmarks! Jarkmen!! Pronking!!!

8 Words for Witchcraft and Black Magic

Witchcraft, dark magic, and more

What Is an Eggcorn?

And how did it get that name?

Words That are Their Own Opposites

Do I contradict myself?

12 Underrated Words That Deserve More Love

These are some good words

The Longest Long Words List

21 words with 21 letters or more

'Cattywampus' and Other Funny-Sounding Words

Feeling 'bumfuzzled' or have the 'collywobbles'?

9 Weird Words in Moby-Dick

All are great; one is offal

Ahoy! Ten Words for Talking Like a Pirate

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

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

Va-va-vuvuzela

Even More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Get off your plum duff and check these out

9 More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

How to tell your butoxy from your hawsehole
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