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- Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0078273 27 comments
- "Huh" is the universal word, say linguists. "Huh" is not innate (other primates don't say it), but the circumstances of its use (needing to quickly and briefly prompt another speaker to repeat herself) are universal, so languages that share no commonalities still converged on this word. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0078273 768 comments science
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- Huh? A Universal Word? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/11/11/244573567/could-one-word-unite-the-world 0 comments
- The Syllable Everyone Recognizes - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/09/arts/that-syllable-everyone-recognizes.html?_r=0 0 comments
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