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A new study from the Netherlands suggests that all languages share one word: "Huh?" Guest host Don Gonyea talks with linguistic anthropologist Nick Enfield about how "huh" sounds around the world, and why it's so prevalent.
November 16, 2013 8:00 AM
DON GONYEA, HOST:
OK. So, let's say you're at work. Someone comes up while you're doing something else and says, hey, did you get that e-mail I sent you yet? And you have no idea what they're talking about, so you spin around and say, huh? But what if you were in Spain?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Eh?
GONYEA: Or Ghana?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Ah?
GONYEA: Or Laos?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: Heh?
GONYEA: Turns out, anywhere really, there's some form of the word huh?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=245584057
2:59 audio at link.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)It caught my attention in the car today.
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)I see what you did there