Why do they call it your funny bone?

Question

we were told it is cause people laugh when you hit it :))

Answer 1

Isn't it because its Latin name is "humerus"?

Answer 2

It is called the funny bone because when you hit it on an item it makes a ticklish like pain.


Its happened to me.

Answer 3

Two reasons:

1) When you hit the end of it at the elbow, it cause that "funny" sensation in your hand.
2) The anatomical name for it is the humerus, which sounds like "humorous" (i.e. funny).

Answer 4

Because it tingles and feels "funny" if you hit it against something. Also, the medical term for it is the "humerus", a homonym for "humorous".

Answer 5

Kids Laugh,
& sometimes you do, when a doc trys to knock that little thing on your knee gentley & your Reflexes Move, Thats why i belive its funny

Answer 6

Irish_girl took my answer to but another thing is that the bone itself is called the humorous bone but i don't think that is how it is spelled!

Answer 7

i don't know, but it always made me mad when I'd hit it, and it never failed, there was always a group of old people around to watch me hit it, and they'd laugh and say, "It isn't funny is it?"
OF COURSE IT ISN"T FUNNY!!!!!

Answer 8

Because that bone in your elbow is called a humerus bone,so as in being funny another word for it is humerus.

Answer 9

You don't laugh... It gives you a "funny" feeling

Answer 10

Because the NAME of the bone itself is the "humerus".

Answer 11

because it make you laugh so its like its funny