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	Word play - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Word play is a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work.
		Puns, phonetic mixups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names are common examples of word play.
		Word play is closely related to word games, that is, games in which the point is manipulating words.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Word_play (262 words)

	Play (activity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example, play is defined as nonserious activity; yet when watching children at play, one is impressed at the seriousness with which they engage in it.
		This type of play could be considered stunt play, whether engaging in play frighting, sky-diving, or riding a device at high speed in an unusual manner.
		Play is recognised as an important aspect of Child development and is explicitly recognised in Article 31 of The Convention on the Rights of the Child (adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, November 29, 1989).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Play_(activity) (768 words)

	Welcome to WORD PLAY Languages for Kids
		WORD PLAY is an Organization dedicated to teaching foreign languages to young children.
		Of course, at WORD PLAY we realize that the child is just starting out on the road that will eventually lead to college and to an involved, creative, constructive life in a world we can now only imagine.
		WORD PLAY implements and manages foreign language programs throughout the Denver-metro area.
	www.wordplaylanguagesforkids.com (232 words)

	Word Play
		Word play: malapropisms, funny definitions, occupational hazards, full-deckisms.
		The Fix Express serves up a random quote, a smile, a trivia, a vocabulary word and a "this day in history" item from its vast database for every hit/reload/visit.
		At Jesse's Word of the Day, language expert Jesse Sheidlower offers witty and informative answers to the most interesting real-life language questions posed by visitors to his site.
	thinks.com /webguide/wordplay.htm (272 words)

	wordplays
		Play against the clock to test your word knowledge.
		Find words that can be made by changing letters in other words.
		The Dictionary was originally populated with words and definitions from WordNet.
	www.wordplays.com /p/index (119 words)

	Playing Word X
		Once you have a word lined up, you can put it on the board by (1) highlighting the first letter, (2) clicking on the board where you want the first letter, and (3) clicking where you want the last letter.
		If you play all 7 tiles in one turn, you will receive a bonus of 50 points plus the value of the word played.
		If the word challenged is not a valid word, the person who played it will lose that turn and miss his/her next turn as well.
	www.iplay.net /ourgames/wordx_how.htm (505 words)

	Word Play (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Words, like "caret" and "carrot" that are pronounced the same, but are spelled differently, and that have different meanings.
		Ambigrams are a word or words that can be read in more than one way or from more than a single vantage point, such as both right side up and upside down.
		Word morphing is changing one word into another by changing one letter at a time with each change resulting in a valid word.
	www.wolinskyweb.net.cob-web.org:8888 /word.htm (4506 words)

	Word Play
		A word is followed by five possible meanings, choose the one you think is closest to the meaning.
		An incomplete sentence is followed by five words, choose the one that you think fits into the sentence best.
		See the picture, speak out the name of the object aloud and then pick the word from the four options presented.
	www.pitara.com /activities/wordplay (178 words)

	Between the Lions . Word Play \| PBS Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		game, kids can see words behave like their meanings: "pop" pops, "leap" leaps, and so on.
		Each word is also spoken aloud, and is enhanced with sound effects.
		When more words are available, a "more words" button will appear.
	pbskids.org /lions/games/wordplay2.html (80 words)

	Word Play
		Words are a lot of fun and word play is a fun way to learn.
		Playing with words shifts the focus off reading and concentrates on, well, play.
		Word games are excellent for reluctant and advanced readers alike, as playing them sharpens reading skills.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/reading_for_kids/47143/1 (373 words)

	Word Way (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		What started out as addressing 35 word families (rimes) with 2 or 3 activities each has turned into more than 70 word families with the potential for 30 activities.
		Now we call them rimes and linguists prefer to say phonograms, but to the classroom teacher they are a tool to move their children into literacy.
		For multisyllabic words, older readers and writers may spell one syllable at a time.
	teachers.santee.k12.ca.us /carl/word_way.htm (2023 words)

	Garbl's Word Play Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		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.
		Words and Wordplays--A gallimaufry of logodaedaly and verbalistic legerdemain.
	home.comcast.net /~garbl/writing/wordplay.htm (470 words)

	Music Word Play - Questions, Answers, Fun Facts, Information
		A poet once created a word 170 letters long in a play, using an enterprising technique that has been copied by a major fast food chain.
		It was introduced into the English language from a character in a play from the 18th century.
		It's for a 40th birthday party: her mum told me she, as a child, used to play ukulele and was playing that song over and over.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/Music/Music-Word-Play-5287.html (1057 words)

	Word Play Quizzes and Word Play Trivia -- FunTrivia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From a six-letter word, letters are dropped and words re-anagrammed into new ones.
		Then, when it becomes a two-letter word, new letters are added and anagrammed until we have new seven-letter word.
		Drop down twice from a seven-letter word and rearrange the remaining letters until you reach a three-letter word.
	www.funtrivia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /quizzes/brain_teasers/word_play.html (175 words)

	Word Cross™, Word Games - Shockwave
		Place words on the board to fill out the puzzle and find special letters for the mystery phrase at the bottom of the screen.
		When entering words all you need to put in are the words that have ghost letters on the play board.
		Filling in all the words gives no additional clues and the big points are in saving time.
	www.shockwave.com /gamelanding/wordcross.jsp?rssfeed=1 (449 words)

	Word Ways Home
		For more than thirty years, Word Ways has explored the many facets of logology (an old word resurrected by the late Dmitri Borgmann to describe recreational linguistics).
		Word Ways is currently edited by Ross Eckler, author of the recent book Making the Alphabet Dance (St. Martin's, 1996), a survey of the field and the many new discoveries made in the last thirty-five years.
		Word Ways is published in an 80-page format four times a year (February, May, August, November).
	www.wordways.com (164 words)

	Digit - Features - Word play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The religious art of the Counter Reformation is today viewed with the rarefied reverence that we view all high culture, but this was not its purpose â“ religious art was the visual advertising of the past.
		Prior to Bernbachâs double-team approach to creative output, words came first, with the visuals a poor second.
		Good copy is about selling, so think of the words that best encapsulate ideas, words that speak to the client, stir an emotion or provoke an opinion.
	www.digitmag.co.uk /features/index.cfm?FeatureID=1506 (3090 words)

	Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky
		Word Warm-Ups Just as you would stretch before you go running, you need to warm up before you start writing poetry.
		Pick a word, any word, and think of all the words that rhyme with that word.
		Then write down all the words you can think of that have the same meaning as that adjective.
	teacher.scholastic.com /writewit/poetry/jack_brainstorming.htm (326 words)

	My Game Company - Word Play
		Word Play is easy to learn - just link letters together in a chain to form words!
		The challenge depends on which of the four game modes you decide to play: each mode features its own unique goals and special obstacles.
		Word Play is published as shareware, which means you may download the game and try it for free!
	www.mygamecompany.com /Products/WordPlay/main.htm (298 words)

	Wordplay (game show) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The game was played by two contestants on a board with 9 words divided into rows on a 3-by-3 grid, with the middle row being one spot higher than the other two.
		Connecting words would be worth cash in the amount of all the spaces connected to the word selected.
		At the end of the third round, the player with the most money played a bonus round, in which the player would play on a different board for an increasing cash jackpot.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Wordplay_(game_show) (623 words)

	Fun Word Facts at Aleeya dotNet
		Bookkeeping is the only word with 3 double letters in a row.
		Subbookkeeper is the only English word with four pairs of double letters in a row.
		Indivisibility is the only word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times.
	www.aleeya.net /category/word-play/fun-word-facts (226 words)

	BlackDog's Word Games
		Letters of a word appear on your screen one at a time in order.
		Find the words in the jumbled letters and watch the letters dance when you get it right.
		For the word game aficionados; you will fall in love with it from the first few seconds.
	www.blackdog4kids.com /games/word (543 words)

	Puzzle Links - Word Play
		Clever word games to amaze and amuse readers of all ages.
		Pat Battaglia) visits schools (4th, 5th and 6th grades) with his Word Fun Presentations to turn kids on to words and inspire them to improve their communication skills.
		And several additional options are available: you can browse through the previous days and months, or you can even submit a word search of your own to challenge your fellow visitors.
	www.puzzles.com /PuzzleLinks/WordPlay.htm (477 words)

	Printable Christmas Fun Word Search Game - Fun Christmas Wordfinds for kids
		Each time you play, there will be a different set of words.
		To print the word search puzzle, click on the printer icon that is next to the "start over" button embedded in the game.
		A new word puzzle generates with random words from the thematic word list.
	www.apples4theteacher.com /word-finds/christmas-fun-wordsearch.html (356 words)

	Hoadworks' Wordly-Wise word games - Games Index
		This word for someone who accompanies a young woman or supervises gatherings of young people derives from the French word for a protective hood or head covering.
		Well, you solve six clues to 2-letter words and then shake 'em all about and then solve four clues to 3-letter words and you shake 'em all about and then you solve three clues to 4-letter words.
		Five words share a common key word in each of their definitions.
	www.hoadworks.com /gamemenu.htm (1842 words)

	oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Word Hacks
		As one of the applications in Microsoft Office, Word is the dominant word-processing program for both Windows and Mac users.
		Far beyond a tutorial, Word Hacks assumes you have a solid working knowledge of the application and focuses on showing you exactly how to accomplish your pressing tasks, address your frequent annoyances, and solve even your most complex problems.
		Contains many hacks not available even from the MVP Word website, including ways to handle doc corruption, a topic for which I have had trouble finding comprehensive info.
	www.oreilly.com /catalog/wordhks (750 words)

	Word Play - Play Free Games - Grab.com Games
		We do not endorse this product, and we are neither responsible for its content or issues that may arise from its download or use.
		The challenge depends on which of the four game modes you decide to play: each mode presents its own unique goals and obstacles.
		Word Play is fun for all ages, and can be used to both teach and increase vocabulary.
	www.grab.com /games/g/word_play (260 words)

	Word Play
		Heteronyms are words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently.
		Homographs are words that have identical spellings but different pronunciations and different meanings.
		Words and expressions commonly used in New Zealand with their equivalent definition.
	www.wolinskyweb.net /word.htm (4506 words)

	Startling! - Brain Boosters - DiscoverySchool.com
		You can take 1 letter out of the 9-letter word startling so that without rearranging letters you will have a real 8-letter word: starling, which is a bird.
		Continue to remove 1 letter at a time to make new English words until you get down to a 1-letter English word.
		The words are startling, starling, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I. Source: Inspired by a puzzle in Put on Your Thinking Cap, Helen Jill Fletcher.
	school.discovery.com /brainboosters/wordplay/startling.html (107 words)

	Word Play
		The longest word you can spell without repeating a letter is
		The word with the longest definition in most dictionaries is
		is the only word in which an "f" is pronounced like a "v".
	www.cybersalt.org /cleanfun/wordplay.htm (80 words)

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