From bae to millennial, 11 words that make the heart sink

The 5,000 funniest words have been revealed, but drop 'gamification' at a party and you may as well say 'TED talk for one'

Comedy is simple. Just give an egghead a tinkle, get them to waddle over to play some bebop on a twerp's ass, and you've got yourself a laugh riot. Psychologists at the University of Warwick recently asked 800 people to rate 5,000 word on which were the most inherently comic. They include the aforementioned "waddle", "bebop", "twerp", "ass", "tinkle" and "egghead" (imagine, a man with an egg for a head!). Less predictably, it turns out that men and women find different words funny: "buzzard" and "czar" make the male charts, as do sex words such as "orgy" and "bondage". Women - those demure little puddings - prefer "giggle" or "sweat". If those are the words that make us puncture lumbar regions with guffaws, what about their opposites: those words that make the heart sink? Well, we can think of a few.

Dunkirk Hot take incoming. Could it be Brexit-themed?