New Research Reveals Funniest Words in English Language
Aug 2, 2017 by News Staff / Source
According to new research published in the journal Behavior Research Method, tit, booty, booby, hooter and nitwit are some of the funniest words in the English language.
A due of psychology researchers from the University of Warwick, UK, analyzed a large collection of 4,997 randomly selected common words, and showed them to 950 participants online — asking them to rate from one to five how humorous they found each word.
“The participants were recruited using Amazon Mechanical Turk. Any registered member of Amazon Mechanical Turk was allowed to participate, with the requirement of fully completing the study (partial data was not recorded), and only doing the study once,” the authors explained.
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