'Funk fungus' is a humorous phrase and scientists now know why

A examine greater than 55,000 pairs of phrases has discovered why phrase pairings like "gnome bone" and "spam scrotum" appear to be extra amusing than their constituent elements

People laughing at a joke

Some pairs of phrases are funnier than others

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On their very own there's nothing significantly humorous in regards to the phrases “gnome” and “bone”, however put them collectively and it's a completely different story. Pairings like “gnome bone” appear to make individuals chuckle, no less than in line with a examine that seemed on the funniness of hundreds of pairs of phrases.

Cynthia S. Q. Siew on the Nationwide College of Singapore and her colleagues generated random phrase pairings utilizing a listing of round 5000 phrases beforehand studied for his or her humour or lack thereof. …