Talk:List of forms of word play

Word puzzles and word games
Should we include links to different types of word games? The links involved are jumble, rebus, and oronym. Some word games do resemble certain types of word play, but not all do and there are tons of word games, which already has a list of its own. Where should we draw the line on what to add and what not to add here? I'm of the opinion that this list should not contain links to word games. It's in the "see also" section already.

Keith Galveston (talk) 14:19, 10 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I removed oronym because it's not an independent article yet and it's included in homophone. Keith Galveston (talk) 14:26, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Anagramic Acronyms?
What would one call an anagramic acronym that forms a word that describes the phrase from which the anagramic acronym originates?

For example:

Take the phrase "New Novel Idea Toward (an) Enterprising Venture". The acronym is NNITEV, which is anagramically rearranged as "INVENT". I know ... kinda lame, but I'm making this up as I go so, so leeway, please? This is done occasionally for marketing purposes, or when inventing a name for a new business (when limited by available .com domains).

I was going to do this for one, "KUDOSi", from which I derived the following as the description of this word, KUDOSi, as "Stand in Doing Kindness Unto Others" (SiDKUO) ... the idea being that you get KUDOSi's (kudos) for "Standing-in, Doing Kindness Unto Others (SiDKUO). Anyway, it seems a fairly common practice (and is fairly easy to do ... unlike inventing pure anagrams or pure acronyms that spell real words) ... but I'm not aware that the practice is represented by any one term.  "Anagramic acronym" is probably the closest thing to the term I'm looking for, but a websearch for that term brings up nothing. Davea0511 (talk) 15:37, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

"Irregular verbs"
There is a kind of word play which I only know by the expression "irregular verbs". That expression is not to be taken literally. An example is: "I am a gourmet. You are a gourmand. He has both feet in the trough." Is this worthy of mention in Wikipedia? TomS TDotO (talk) 14:40, 13 December 2016 (UTC)