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Discover LudwigThe word 'humour' is correct and commonly used in written English
It can be used as a noun or a verb to refer to the quality of being amusing or the act of making someone laugh or find amusement. Example: His dry sense of humour always managed to make me laugh, even on the worst of days.
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humour
noun
The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
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It is cool here!" Bobo, who speaks six languages, was a charming guide with a great sense of humour – and great fashion sense, mixing a batik suit with a modern gilet, or zebra-print shorts with a trendy T-shirt.
Asked about Ukip members repeatedly making racist or homophobic jokes, Farage said there needed to be "more humour in politics" and argued other parties are not scrutinised to the same degree over their comments.
It is especially difficult with writers of humour.
So much as glance at any of them today and your aqueous humour will begin to bubble and spit inside your skull.
Shot economically on location, the film has a wonderful freshness, combined with a dark humour and directness that engaged audiences.
Finally remembering he was also supposed to be injecting some humour into the occasion, he made a laboured fishing joke about Salmond and Sturgeon.
Belle and Sebastian: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance Once considered shorthand for anything twee and indie, Belle and Sebastian throw disco flourishes and dry humour into this ninth studio album.
Best thing about Flo? Good sense of humour.
Mike has a darting intelligence, a keen sense of humour.
But one of the characteristics of the south Wales mining community is a vivid sense of humour".
Says Lushington: "The story had a pervasive humour that lowers our defences while it draws us in.
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