Websites, books and tools
Learn more techniques for playing with your words.
Anagrams
Andy’s anagram solver
Type in your key word or phrase, and this tool will create anagrams from them. Whether you’ll like the anagrams, I can’t say. “Ann Wylie” generated “el yawn in” — not a phrase I’ll be using in my next training brochure!
Internet Anagram Server
Turn a list into a mnemonic device to help readers remember your key points. Create a meaningful acronym from the first letters of the words in your list with this online anagram server.
Oxymorons
Myspace Funny Oxymoron Generator
Get inspiration with this push-button generator. See contradictions in terms like “working vacation,” “political science” and “airline food.”
Serendipitous Oxymoron Maker
Practice creating your own paradoxes. Choose from a small list of positive adjectives with negative nouns (“beautiful disaster”) and negative adjectives with positive nouns (“miserable honesty”).
Word coiners
Verbotomy
Practice coining new words.
Play With Your Words
There’s a little piece of your brain — the Broca’s area — that’s helps you choose from among the many messages you get each day.
You'll learn to flip phrases; compress details; list, rhyme and twist — even coin new words — to cut through the clutter of competing messages.
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