Fun Linguistics

Words, words, words

Anagrams are words or expressions created by combining the letters of another word or expression in a new way. Since it is relatively difficult to come up with anagrams, help is provided by the anagram generator.
Did you know that there are words which simultaneously have diametrically opposed meanings? Thus you can move fast (i.e. quickly) or be held fast (i.e. fixed). Find a nice list of antagonyms here.
If you have always wanted to know what your first name means, take a look at www.thinkbabynames.com.
"Mir fehlen die Worte!" Ein weit verbreitetes Gefühl - dessen Ursache in der Sprache selbst liegen kann - und zwar immer dann, wenn eine lexikalische Lücke vorliegt. Um hier etwas Abhilfe zu schaffen, macht die folgende Liste einige (nicht ganz ernst gemeinte) Vorschläge zur Bereicherung des deutschen Wortschatzes.

Cockney rhyming slang is a famous secret language spoken in London. It replaces certain words with the first part of an expression whose second part rhymes with the original word. The Dick’n’Arry of Cockney Rhyming slang helps you to decode such cryptic messages – or to produce your own.
What rhymes with linguistics? There are several online rhyming dictionaries that you could check. The RhymeZone one is particularly good because it sorts its suggestions by number of syllables. Statistics is thus a particularly good candidate.

Yes, there are songs about linguistics and by linguists!

The Linguists - We are the World
("We are the world/We are the linguists/We are the ones who make a brighter day/By making theories ...")
Linguistics Love Song
("... There's no one else that I could be referring to/Your features all attract me ...")
Morphology I'm yours
("... Class I can move the stress/Or the stem vowel can lax for some rest...")
Linguist Rap
("... I'm a linguist/(Analyzing poetry and song)/The MC Hammer of grammar ...")

On the site with the telling name bridgingtheunbridgeable.com, linguists from the university of Leiden comment on usage questions and usage guides, thereby attempting to bridge the gap between prescriptivists, the general public and descriptive linguistics.
If you like English jokes and cartoons, discover this Website.
Jorge Cham's PhD Comics reveal a profound knowledge of the academic world, whose particularities he exaggerates in a very funny way. You can subscribe to a free mailing list. Highly recommendable!