Saturday, March 13, 2010

Fun Wordplay

This is an intriguing little web app. It's called wordoid and was developed by one Oleg Podolsky. Not being a technophile, I can only do my best to explain it as being a naming app, best used if you want to devise a URL which stands out a bit. Apparently it's difficult to come up with a good domain name (what sort of a name is 'the Puumaja Crew' after all?!?) which can really make or break a start up, but this app can help you. You type in a word, and it comes up with a load of permutations using that word in 'natural', 'almost natural' and 'hardly natural' modes. You can also limit the number of letters in the name (obviously domain names don't want to be too long; wordoid won't let you go beyond 15 or below 5) and devise names in a few languages other than English (sadly Estonian isn't included here!).

For example, when we entered "Kentigern", after our beloved BFK in the natural sounding mode, with a limit of 12 letters, we got names like "kentigernoon", "kentigerness" and "kentigerned", we're sure he loves that. Do the same in hardly natural yields such shibboleths as "kentigernal" and "crokentigern". Doing the same but in German threw up "sickentigern", which is what BFK will be if Lotus don't recreate former glories in the new F1 season, and "kentigernauf"..  etc. Try it!
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