People older than 32 thought squint, jingle, burlesque and pong were hilarious.
Women found the words giggle, beast, circus, grand, juju, humbug, slicker, sweat, ennui, holder, momma and sod funny while people under 32 were partial to goatee, joint and gangster. For instance, according to a press release, men found sexually charged words like orgy and bondage hilarious, along with birthmark, brand, chauffeur, doze, buzzard, czar, weld, prod, corn and racoon. It’s hard to say exactly why people chose those words, except to say the double-oh sound is funny and so is the “ti” and “it.” When breaking down the list by sex and age, however, some small trends to appear. The other words in the top dozen, which all received a score of 3.9 or higher in descending order are Tit, Booby, Hooter, Nitwit, Twit, Waddle, Tinkle, Bebop, Egghead, Ass and Twerp. So what was the funniest word in the group? Booty, with a mean rating of 4.32. Then, using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform, they asked 821 individuals to rate the humor value of 200 randomly selected words from the list on a scale of 1 to 5.
The researchers selected 4,997 words based on lists developed in past research to get a representative sample of English. conducted a survey to find the funniest real words in the English language. As Douglas Main at Newsweek reports, researchers at the University of Warwick in the U.K. So why are some words perceived as funny while others aren’t? It’s hard to say, but a new study is making a start at figuring it out. Seuss book or the frabjous poetry of Lewis Carroll and you’ll find words that are simply funny, regardless of their meaning or context.
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