In new research, scientists from the University of East Anglia and elsewhere studied 874 speakers of 29 different languages, including English, Spanish,...
A duo of scientists from the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California has analyzed the publicly available English-language...
University of Copenhagen researcher Isabelle Augenstein and colleagues trawled through 3.5 million fiction and non-fiction books, all published in English...
A new study by University of Alberta scientists demonstrates that words are judged funnier if they are less common and have an improbable orthographic...
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...
