If there's one thing that E2 has enforced for me, it's that that word must be
monkey.
My best friend had a thing about that word - all you had to do was look at her and say
monkey, and she'd get all hysterical. Of course she'd combat that
secret power of mine with the weird lower-eyelid twitch that only she and her brother could do, which gave me the shivers and made me hysterical in turn. Most people couldn't even see what she was doing. The sight of both of us
hysterical for
no apparent reason did, indeed, make everyone laugh. Perhaps a little
skittishly, but they were laughing!