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There was a time, back in the late 70s and early 80s, when spellchecking software only worked with word processing programs. These programs held a finite database of words that it would use to check ...

Scientists and philosophers have long sought to understand humor. Charles Darwin likened it to a "tickling of the mind," and Thomas Hobbes described it as a feeling of "sudden glory." Theories about ...

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. The researchers determined that there are ...

Study author Chris Westbury reads from a treasury of Dr. Seuss books. Seuss was famous for using made-up words for humor. University of Alberta/Video screenshot That wiggly jiggly poodle just ...

Before we begin, a disclaimer from Dr. Candise Lin, the linguist who recorded the video. She wants people to understand that the words following each English name are not what that name means in ...

I shall not be sorry if this review contains gratuitous grandiloquence or unrestrained zealousness, even at the risk of appearing sesquipedalian – these are mere symptoms of having devoured Shashi ...