@fryrsquared: This is SERIOUS stuff, people! Wriggly, squiffy, lummox, and boobs: What makes some words funny by Chris Westbury and Geoff Hollis (2019)
It's why I love discombobulated - it's such a fun word and perfect for the feeling it's describing
2024-09-28 13:25:10
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kim :
incredible 🤣
2024-10-10 03:37:24
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ErockWoonz :
what's the funniest word!?
2024-09-26 15:32:32
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Buckaroo Ponzi :
Okay I love it but I hate it. If it were alllll entropy then it’s the lowest form of Apples To Apples humor.
2024-10-02 06:49:25
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Anthony Blackmore 🇬🇧 :
You are amazing ♥️
2024-11-27 16:42:42
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Robert Boucher :
u are brilliant
2024-09-30 12:43:16
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Glo Gold :
Love your outtakes 🥰
2024-11-04 22:00:36
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Catherine :
Why is the word “Moist” so awful to hear for some people?
2024-10-07 17:02:34
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astroruru :
I suppose there's a drop at the far end, where it becomes so nonsensical it becomes less funny?
2024-09-26 13:32:47
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pcmixoye :
Without a mathematical model W C Fields noticed that years ago.
2024-09-26 02:41:20
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caabi :
😁
2025-06-29 06:47:04
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RichLiddle74 :
😳😳😳
2024-09-25 17:02:53
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Kiwi :
@Waffles:p
2024-10-09 14:43:55
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caabi :
🥰
2025-06-29 06:47:07
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Alex Cheddar :
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2024-09-25 22:17:41
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phyphor :
it's why "kumquat" is a funny word as well as a small citrus fruit
2024-09-26 10:30:37
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sxw10 :
they all sound like English villages
2024-10-22 19:07:26
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Bojana_Stamatović :
Brain is so good when used 💥
2024-11-02 19:39:00
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Giro 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇵🇹 :
Roald Dahl nailed this nearly 100 years earlier.
2024-10-09 23:00:11
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Craig Mac Sax :
I remember seeing an interview where Rowan Atkinson and Ben Elton talked about writing Blackadder, how they would spend hours deliberating on whether it was funnier to use "pants" or "trousers" etc
2024-09-25 22:56:53
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Mykyta "Concordius" :
I love this. The linguist in me finds this not only humorous but genuinely fascinating!
2024-09-25 20:26:45
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TheRealWorld :
I kinda get this. my young son often found new words I said extremely funny. like flabbergasted. he would giggle whenever I said it until he got use to that word. then found another new one funny
2024-09-26 03:47:00
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cuso4 :
that's some ignoble-worthy stuff. I'm invested!
2024-09-29 08:38:50
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Delululemon :
Flange has to be one of my favourite words 🤣 sounds so rude but is so utiltarian and boring 🤣
2024-09-25 19:47:45
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Flametoast :
No mention of “shrubbery”? I can’t go on
2024-09-25 16:45:49
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Cescabones :
Bibble
2024-09-25 16:47:58
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Paul :
The late Ronnie Barker was a master with words and mispronunciation 🙂
2024-10-05 15:26:41
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Darren Winter :
Ever notice that when comedians do a skit or a sketch featuring curry, most of the time they will mention Bhuna.
2024-10-09 07:30:24
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Jamie Davies :
“I am anispeptic, frasmotic, and even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulations.”
2024-09-25 21:09:48
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mini_me50 :
Lots of B sounds, double oo and a y at the end. btw flange is the top and bottom of an I beam, not at all funny unless someone hits their head on one.
2024-09-26 20:16:41
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vanmamma :
Roal Dhal was the master of this. Snozcumbers and wizzpops come to mind!
2024-09-25 18:43:49
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donotfollow :
you have too much time on hand...😏
2024-10-06 12:20:18
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paintycait :
Flange and clear …fantastic words
2024-09-30 17:53:25
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Margo M :
This is fascinating 🧐
2024-09-30 09:57:04
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Vawn🏴 :
A word that should be funny by this metric but that fills me with unfathomable rage is "lugubrious"
2024-10-08 11:56:55
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Vivavietnam :
Hi darling
2024-10-08 19:33:56
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Bodillan :
I have to investigate how this works in Swedish!
2024-10-18 06:19:46
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Torbox :
😂 we have found your level,
2024-10-01 10:41:16
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Mara the Sailorman :
Nothing funny with "flange" when somebody hides it your suitcase when you go home from a vessel.
2024-12-01 15:05:12
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Manuel :
How about words that are words but you go “who thought this up?”? Like dongle..?! It makes you think they had to market it to a 4 year old
2024-11-30 07:47:22
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TheRiverMersey🇬🇧 :
4th word is funny for other reasons🤣
2024-11-29 20:52:32
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td :
Fadge is funny and is a bread bun in Newcastle.
2024-11-28 01:31:39
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Astrid Heli Roemer :
🥰
2024-11-25 15:44:08
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missusbadcrumble :
Quincunx always makes me chuckle.
2024-11-19 13:34:24
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Mel Encoly :
I wonder if like the roundess of the word impacts how funny it is (I see Bouba and Kiki everywhere)
2024-10-19 02:13:39
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nicocozzi :
Vic Flange
2024-10-18 19:11:34
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Boots McGoot :
i feel like Lewis Carroll would have talked your EAR off about this. His Jabberwocky poem is so well measured to be fully ridiculous. Outgrabe! it almost means something, but doesn't quite! marvellous work
2024-10-15 21:24:25
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Oldbaldad 🇨🇦 :
Vaudeville comedians knew that K sounds are funnier than others and actively rewrote their jokes to include those sounds where comedically appropriate.
2024-10-14 14:24:41
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georgejohnstonefitness :
"k/hard c" is alleged to be the funniest sound. Can't believe I'm so sad that I knew this fact🤣🤣
2024-09-25 18:39:44
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Peter :
Blardarp
2024-09-25 23:39:41
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