Word Play 

Pam Petty


Books
 Links


 
 

Links
http://www.wolinskyweb.com/word.htm

http://www.vocabulary.com/

http://www.syndicate.com/power.html

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/anagrams/

http://www.nanana.com/wordgames.html
 

http://www.wordquiz.com/

http://wheel.station.sony.com/
 

http://www.funster.com/

http://wordzap.com/index.html
 

http://www.wordzap.com/enigma/
 

http://www.intuitive.com/cgi-local/etymologic.cgi

http://www.wordland.com/
 
 

Books

(click on each title to read about the book on Amazon)

The Whole Ball of Wax and Other Colloquial Phrases : What They
Mean and How They Started

The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson

Who Put the Butter in Butterfly? : And Other Fearless Investigations
into Our Illogical Language

Lederer, Richard Anguished English

More Anguished English/an Expose of Embarrassing
Excruciating, and Egregious Errors in English

The Play of Words : Fun and Games for Language Lovers
 

Crazy English : The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language

Get Thee to a Punnery

Dictionary of Word Origins - A History of the Words, Expressions, and Cliches We Use

A Hog on Ice and Other Curious Expressions.

Funk, Charles Earle: Thereby Hangs a Tale

It's Raining Cats and Dogs...and Other Beastly Expressions
by Christine Ammer

The Dictionary of American Slang  by Robert L. Chapman,
 

Horse-Feathers & Other Curious Words.

Randall, Bernice: WHEN IS A PIG A HOG? A Guide To Confoundingly Related English

Heavens to Betsy! and Other Curious Sayings

Southpaws & Sunday Punches : And Other Sporting Expressions

Off the Clock : A Lexicon of Time Words and Expressions
 by Kimberly Olson Fakih

Seeing Red or Tickled Pink : Colorful Terms in Everyday Language (Plume Books for Wordwatchers)
by Christine Ammer

Even-Steven and Fair and Square : More Stories Behind the Words (Plume Books for Wordwatchers)
by Morton S. Freeman