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{{trope|wppage=Inherently funny word}}
{{quote|''"Fifty-seven years in this business, you learn a few things. You know what words are funny and which words are not funny. Alka-Seltzer is funny. You say 'Alka-Seltzer', you get a laugh... Words with 'k' in them are funny. Casey Stengel, that's a funny name. Robert Taylor is not funny. Cupcake is funny. Tomato is not funny. Cookie is funny. Cucumber is funny. Car keys. Cleveland... Cleveland is funny. Maryland is not funny. Then, there's chicken. Chicken is funny. Pickle is funny."''|'''Neil Simon'''
Fact: Whether by pronunciation, spelling, or use, some words are just plain funny. List your favorite Inherently Funny Words here!
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* [[Team Fortress 2|BO]][[Dexter's Laboratory|NK!]]
* [[Portal (series)|Cake]] (real or fictional)
* Chicken ([[Garfield and Friends|''extremely'' funny]])
* Cock
** Multiple meanings only add to the hilarity.
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* [[Barack Obama|Barack Hussein Obama]].
** Any other President with an unusual given name, particularly the more obscure 19th century ones - [[Millard Fillmore]], [[Ulysses S. Grant]], [[Rutherford B. Hayes]], and [[Grover Cleveland]] fall in under this. You might also see [[Zachary Taylor]] treated in this way in works from before about 1980 when the name started to be [[Popularity Polynomial|popular]] with parents of newborns.
* Barkevious Mingo. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131019214413/http://nameoftheyear.blogspot.com/ Winner of 2009's Name of the year] (have a look around that site, while you're at it).
* [[Man vs. Wild|Bear Grylls]]
* Benedict Cumberbatch. (Technically it's Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch. [[wikipedia:Benedict Cumberbatch|No, really]].)
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* Mike Figgis. His surname is ''particularly'' popular as a source of hilarity for English students.
* Mike Huckabee
** [[I
* Mike Hunt (Green Bay Packers linebacker)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111106095334/http://s2.buzzfeed.com/static/imagebuzz/2008/9/19/22/c365b53db1af4f82a4b9bd3e1f18803e.jpg Mike Litoris]
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* Sexmoan, Pampanga, Philippines (sadly, [[wikipedia:Sasmuan, Pampanga|nerfed]])
* Sheboygan, Wisconsin
* Shitterton, Dorset, England. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101230084948/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/shitterton-the-village-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-831420.html The village that dare not speak its name.]
* Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, England [[wikipedia:Six Mile Bottom|(this is honestly a real place)]]
* Smackover, Arkansas [https://web.archive.org/web/20160209200311/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smackover,_Arkansas]
* South Kumminin, WA, Australia
* Sparta (or [[300|SPAAAAAAAAAR]][[
* Stampersgat ("stomper's hole"), the Netherlands.
* Swadlincote, Derbyshire, England
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* Walla Walla, WA.
* Wanglik (AKA Hengli,) China
* Wankdorf Stadium, Bern, Switzerland, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120507122258/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=337901&cc=5901 Home of the Young Boys.]
* Wanker's Corner, Oregon.
* Waterloo, either because of the -oo or the bathroom implications. Or both.
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* cookies
* corn
** [[Beavis and
** [[Homestar Runner|Corn is no place for A Mighty Warrior!]]
* cosine ([[Dave Barry]]'s favorite word for poking fun at math teachers)
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** [[Young Frankenstein|Fronkensteen]]
* frick
** And [[Battlestar Galactica
* [[wikipedia:Fucitol|fucitol]]
* fulcrum
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** [[Studio Ghibli]]
* [[Memetic Mutation|jimmies]]
* jingo (including ''[[
* jockstrap
* John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
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* millinillion (that's 10^3003)
* [[wikipedia:Mohorovicic discontinuity|Mohorovicic discontinuity]]
* [[
** [[Discworld|Moist von Lipwig]]
* [[High-Class Glass|monocle]]
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* '''Romanian:'''
** The surname of Romanian singer (of Hungarian ethnicity) [https://web.archive.org/web/20120505134825/http://www.radicalonline.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Daniela-Gyorfi.jpg Daniela] [http://www.click.ro/bbtcontent/clipping/CLIIMA20110926_0118/5.jpg Gyorfi] has similar pronunciation with Romanian words for "rag" and "hooker". Add some scandal over her past love affairs and [[Dude, Not Funny|cue twenty years of rough jokes on her sex life]].
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** -tachi, a collectivizing suffix for all the various gender- and age- specific ways to say "I" (ore/boku/atashi/watashi/etc.), which can add a humorous nuance beyond the meaning of "we" ("Ore-tachi"="we [tough guys]...")
*** The word "tomodachi" was originally made by applying the collectivizing "-tachi" to the word "tomo" (friend), but nowadays this word also means a single friend. How to make a noun which explicitly means "a group of friends"? Well, of course, add the same suffix once more: "tomodachitachi"!
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090130054322/http://gai-gin.com/comic_0124.shtml Seieki].
** 若干 (jakkan), despite being more or less synonymous with ちょっと (chotto) or 少し (sukoshi), is considered more inherently funny.
** Atatakai - warmish
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