Hilarious Delivery Driver Doesn't 'Need To Say Words' in Viral Video

A video of a delivery worker appearing to speak nonsensical words to customers during deliveries has had users on TikTok in stitches.

The viral video, which had 1.6 million likes at the time of writing, was shared by user Will Unsworth (@willunworthy).

The clip, overlaid with a message that read "I don't need to say words at my delivery job" and captioned with simply "No words," shows a person speaking into different intercom machines and saying random phrases, such as "hubbly bubbly," to notify customers of their delivery.

According to a February 2022 study in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Psychology, "Apart from the ability to perceive novel or familiar phonological contrasts, another important component involved in speech processing, including novel word learning, is working memory.

"Working memory, which is a short-term memory involved in immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing, plays an important role in novel word learning," the study said.

A December 2013 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Language and Speech found that: "Listeners find it relatively difficult to recognize words that are similar-sounding to other known words. In contrast, when asked to identify spoken nonwords, listeners perform better when the nonwords are similar to many words in their language."

According to a January 1993 study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, when reading or listening to discourse, up to five or six words may be perceived and understood per second, which is a "remarkable cognitive feat."

The study found that when reading lists of words and nonwords at 100 ms/word, words were reported accurately but nonwords were "frequently converted," such as 'dack' into similarly spelled words like 'duck' or 'deck'.

The study explained that "In sentences, both nonwords and anomalous words were misread as appropriate words, but the bias was greater for nonwords" and "in general, letter perception is more accurate when the letters are embedded in words and word perception is more accurate when the words are embedded in sentences."

Several TikTokers were amused by the latest viral video. Some attempted to decipher what was being said by the delivery worker in the clip, such as one user who wrote: "'Aishuwayshe'. 'Yep floor 3'," in a comment that got 45,500 likes at the time of writing.

In a comment that received 263,600 likes, another said: "'Hubbly bubbly'" 'ok one second'."

In a comment that got 92,400 likes, a third user also imitated the delivery worker's words, writing:"'One whoo hee' 'One who?'."

In a comment that got 122,400 likes, another user simply noted: " This is gonna blow up so big [crying laughing emoji]."