(Index last updated 12 January 2000.)

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"macadam": fffox-trot

machine learning: rrecognition

machine translation: Zwei

Macintosh, Charles, and the mackintosh: fffox-trot

Macintosh computers: ccheck (notes), aaalphabets2, hhhyphen, iiintonation

Mackay-Smith, Joshua: uuliginose (answers)

Mackay-Smith, Seth: GGrab-bag

Madden, Mary Ann: PPalindromes

Mad Libs: aaniversary

magnetic words and letters

Magnetic Phonetics: k@n-'sIs-t@n-,si, vvariants

magnetic poetry: ppoems

magnetic proverbs: oooxymorons

magnetic Shakespearean insults: IInsults

Maguire, Jerry: IInsults

mailmen: zeugma

Major-General, Modern: xena

majuscules: see letters.

malapropisms: Isms, mmalaprop, IInsults, fffox-trot

Malayo-Polynesian languages: CCreole

Maledicta: IInsults

mallards: Venery

Mandel, Nancy: K-------k (comments)

manglish: Zwei

Manhattan: queen

manuals, computer: Zwei

March: patterns

March Hare: aaniversary

Marcus Aurelius: spiro

Markham, Beryl: sssimiles

marquees: Marquee

marriage: Grant (comments)

Marriott, Joe: iitywybad

Marxism: Grant

Mash: K-------k (comments)

Mastermind®: v-five

mathematical operations, order of: mnemonic

mathematics: ppperfect

Mattison, Jacob: VVowels (comments), XXmas (comments), ppperfect (comments), AAAmanuensis (comments)

McAdam, John L., and macadam: fffox-trot

McArthur, Tom: yyyadda

McCowan, Kristen ("Kam"): Chains, sspooner, IInsults, KKeywords, bbbozo, yyyadda

McCutcheon, John: iiintonation

McKennitt, Loreena: wwweb

McNally, Robert: rrecognition

Mead, Margaret: CCreole

The Meaning of Meaning: ggostak

"measure-zero event": jjjargon

Medlar, Art: Zwei

meiosis: rrrhetoric

Melanesian Pidgin: CCreole

melodies: see music.

memory: bon-mots (comments), mnemonic, Numbers

Mendenhall, Ed: jaw

Merriam Webster's: see dictionaries.

Merritt, Dixon Lanier: lllimericks2

messages, transmitting: dddit

"Messiah": XXmas

meta-limericks: limericks

Metamagical Themas: see Douglas R. Hofstadter

metaphors: patterns, riddles, zeugma, Obsolete, xx-unknown, oooxymorons, sssimiles

See also similes.

META tag (HTML): KKeywords

meteors: ZZeus

meter: Trochee, lliteration, HHamlet

mice: elocution (comments), Grant, Zwei

Michaelsen, O. V.: PPalindromes (comments)

Microsoft Word: ccheck

Mike speech recognition system: DDragon

Milic, Louis: MMondegreens

military speech: Alphabets

millennium (as "two thousand"): Zwei

Miller, Glenn: Xchange

Miller, Kami: AAAmanuensis (comments)

Milton, John: Trochee

minuscules: see letters.

mishearings: MMondegreens

"miss": names

misspellings: see spelling.

mistakes: see errors.

mixed metaphors: sssimiles

mnemonics: mnemonic, oops, bbbozo

Mnemosyne: mnemonic

Moger, Art.: twiddlers (comments)

Mohanraj, Mary Anne: zzzed

Mondegreens: MMondegreens

money: Dollar

love of: Dollar (comments)

monickers: see names.

monoglots: Zwei

Monson, Don: Rhyme (comments), UNIVAC (comments), zz-cryptic (comments), aaalphabets2, lllimericks2

"monsoon": weather

months, lengths of: mnemonic (comments)

Monty Python: patterns, yyyadda, zzzed

moon

phases of: mnemonic, mnemonic (comments)

restaurants on: yet

Moon, Elizabeth: lliteration

moras: hhaiku (comments)

Moreton, Elliott: bon-mots (comments), colossus, colossus (comments), limericks, names, one, spiro, Dollar (comments), Grant (comments), License (comments), Y-why, hhaiku (comments), oops, MMondegreens, PPalindromes (comments), Post-Structuralist Buzzwords list, kkknight, AAAmanuensis

Morris, Ivan: vvvarieties

morphemes (as "pieces of a word"): one

Morse Code: PPalindromes, dddit

Moses: elocution, Grant

Moskowitz, Jim: dactyl, limericks (comments), names, patterns, queen, queen (comments), twiddlers list, zeugma, Alphabets, Chains, Numbers, Obsolete (comments), QWERTY, Swifty, ffortissimo, uuliginose (answers), zz-cryptic, EEtc (comments), LLa, SSlogans, WWhat, aaalphabets2, ggginger, iiintonation, Post-Structuralist Buzzwords list, mmmolasses, vvvarieties

mottos on license plates: License

Mount Vernon: Euphemisms

mouse pointing devices: see mice.

movies

describing: KKeywords

references to: JJive

reviews: hhaiku

titles: see titles.

Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary: uuliginose, xxxiphoid

Muckenhoupt, Carl: limericks, ggginger (comments)

multiplication: ppperfect (comments)

Muppet Show, The: EEtc, JJive

Murray, Arthur: fffox-trot

Murray, Earl of: MMondegreens

Muses, Mnemosyne as mother of: mnemonic

"mushroom": kkarate

music: mnemonic, hhaiku, lliteration, LLa, iiintonation

groups: NNames3

See also songs.

Mycenian: xena

mythology, Greek and Roman: ZZeus

Mytilene: xena