Booty: the funniest word in the English language.

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[Research] published in Behavior Research Methods in July has determined which, among about 5,000 words, are the funniest and which ones people find devoid of humor.

The study asked people on Amazon Mechanical Turk, a job board where people can sign up for small crowdsourcing tasks, to rate thousands of words. They had to assign each word a value from one to five, where five is funny, three is neutral, and one is particularly humorless. Think “turd,” “walnut,” and “torture,” respectively.

The study wasn’t perfect — everyone had to rate the same 11 calibrating words to start off, but the 5,000 remaining words had to be divided up among the 821 participants. Each person rated about 200 words, so each word only received about 15 ratings. Therefore, the statistical analysis used to rank words wasn’t particularly strong, but the researchers found some neat trends.

The funniest words? Booty took first place with a ranking of 4.32, closely followed by tit at 4.25, and booby at 4.13. The least favorite, thankfully, was rape at 1.18, followed by torture at 1.26 and torment at 1.3. Among the calibrating words that were ranked by all 821 participants, turd took the lead at 3.78, and drought finished last at 1.13.
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https://www.inverse.com/article/35001-funny-words-science-survey-booty
 
I remember in 5th grade there was this kid who whenever he didn't like something would say "man, that's booty."

Near the end of the school year he said it and the teacher, clearly way over it, turned to him and said "You know what? Everything's booty." I don't think he ever said it again in that class.

It's a great word.
 
I love the moment on The Sopranos when Tony's shrink tries to refer to his friend 'Pussy' and calls him 'Booty' by accident. I would kill to have a friend named Booty.
 
Booty isn't funny. It's not something to joke about. It's serious business. It's also the only word that caught my eye in the thread title.
 
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