(Index last updated 12 January 2000.)

A

"aa": one (comments)

Abbat, Pierre: twiddlers (comments), zeugma (comments), Grant (comments), Rhyme (comments), bburglar (comments), ddictionary (comments), eepicene (comments), iitywybad (comments), sspooner (comments), CCreole, EEtc (comments), WWhat (comments)

Abbott, William Alexander "Bud": WWhat

abbreviations: one, UNIVAC, EEtc, XXmas, aaalphabets2, lllimericks2

abc (ASCII music format): RRabbit (comments)

ABC Et Cetera: see Humez.

Abelard: names

A-B-I's: Alphabets

accents: k@n-'sIs-t@n-,si, JJive

acronyms: UNIVAC, iitywybad, XXmas, oooxymorons

acting warmups: nnname-game

Adam: PPalindromes

Adam of the Road: Venery

Adams, Douglas: YYUR

Adams, Franklin P.: intro

Adams, Scott: jjjargon

addition: ppperfect

Adobe FrameMaker: ccheck

adverbs: Swifty

advertising: SSlogans

Agee, Jon: PPalindromes

Agnew, Spiro T.: spiro

AI: see artificial intelligence

air: yet

airlines: SSlogans

Airplane (movie): JJive

airplanes: fffox-trot

alalaes ululient: xena

Albuquerque: hhaiku

Alcaraz, Armando: qquetzal

Alcuin: UNIVAC

Alekano language: CCreole

Alfasso, Ruth: Swifty

algebra: xx-unknown

Algeo, John: eepicene (comments)

Algonquian: kkarate (comments)

aliases: see names.

The Alibi: hhaiku

Alice in Wonderland: see Lewis Carroll.

alliteration: riddles, lliteration, IInsults

Almanac[s] of Words at Play: see Willard Espy.

ALPCA: License (comments)

alphabets: Alphabets, UNIVAC, aaniversary, UUnboxed, aaalphabets2

ordering of: QWERTY, ddictionary

See also letters.

Altavista: Zwei

alt.callahans newsgroup: Chains

alt.usage.english newsgroup: k@n-'sIs-t@n-,si, eepicene

Altvater, Fran: aaniversary, XXmas

Alvin's Secret Code: ZZeus

Amazon (company): KKeywords

ambiguity: uuui

American Sign Language: see ASL.

American Society of Indexers: KKeywords

American vs. British pronunciation and meaning: ggginger, zzzed

ampersands: EEtc

anagrams: zz-cryptic, AAnagrams, aaalphabets2, eeespy, ppperfect

analogies: patterns

anapests: limericks

Andersen, Hans Christian: dactyl

"And Phrases": tttongs

anecdotes: see jokes.

Anglo-Saxon: see English, Old.

"animadversion": bbbozo

animals: animals, animals (comments), jaw, vvvarieties

Anne of Green Gables: License

anonymous authors and informants: weather (comments), zeugma

anthimeria: rrrhetoric

Anti-Digit-Dialing League: Xchange

apocryphal stories: dddit

apophasis: dactyl (comments), rrrhetoric (comments)

aposiopesis: rrrhetoric

apostrophes: one

appellations: see names.

Apple Computer: DDragon, hhhyphen

See also Macintosh computers.

"Appleton, Victor": Swifty

April: ccheck

Arabic: weather

area codes: Xchange

argot: see slang.

arithmetic, with words: YYUR

Arlen, Harold: iiintonation

artichokes: Paean

articulation, vocal: VVowels

artificial intelligence: rrecognition, DDragon

ASCII

ASCII IPA: see International Phonetic Alphabet.

abc ASCII music format: RRabbit (comments)

email, use in: hhhyphen

origins of: dddit

ASL: Chains, uuui

Astaire, Fred: fffox-trot

Astor, John Jacob: lllimericks2

astronomy: ZZeus

Athens: xena

Atlantic magazine: MMondegreens

atlases: K-------k

aurora australis: weather

Austen, Jane: eepicene (comments)

Australian

accents, computer-generated: JJive

style: hhhyphen (comments)

Automotive License Plate Collectors Association (ALPCA): License (comments)

auxiliary languages: uuui

"avocado": qquetzal

"AWOL": UNIVAC

"axolotl": qquetzal

Aztecs: qquetzal