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Wriggly, squiffy, lummox, and boobs: What makes some words funny?
UAlberta researchers are cracking the science of humour, one word at a time.

NAME_1 - 27 November 2018

UAlberta professor NAME_2 explores the science of humour and what makes some words funny.
University of Alberta professor NAME_2, in the Department of Psychology, explores the science of humour and what makes some words funny.

Upchuck, bubby, boff, wriggly, yaps, giggle, cooch, guffaw, puffball, and jiggly: the top 10 funniest words in the English language, according to a new study by University of Alberta psychology experts.

The researchers determined that there are two main kinds of predictors of funniness in words: those related to the form of the word and those related to its meaning.

"Humour is, of course, still personal," explained NAME_2, professor in the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Science. "Here, we get at the elements of humour that aren't personal; things that are universally funny."

The purpose of the study was to understand just what it is about certain words that makes them funny. NAME_3 and his collaborator NAME_4, from the Department of Computing Science, began their work based on a study from the University of Warwick, which had participants rate the humorousness of nearly 5,000 English words. NAME_3 and NAME_5 modeled these ratings statistically. "Our model was good at predicting which words parti