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Five questions homebuilders should ask when selecting an ERP system - Global Construction Review

Five questions homebuilders should ask when selecting an ERP system - Global Construction Review
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Language | The World from PRX

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These Are the Funniest Words in English, According to Science

“Wriggly, Squiffy, Lummox, and Boobs: What Makes Some Words Funny?” analyzed an existing list of 4997 funny words and recruited 800 survey participants to whittle down the collection to the 200 words the people found funniest.

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Why are some sounds funny?

Why are some sounds funny?
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Why are some sounds funny?

To English speakers, the word, “peanut” isn’t especially funny. But “peanut” in Serbian, “kikiriki” is widely considered by Serbs to be the funniest word in their language. This raises the question of why people laugh at some words (“poop”) but not at others (“treadmill”). Does it come down to their meanings? Or are people responding to their sounds? Psycholinguist Chris

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