Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Question: What one word is virtually the same in all languages?

Answer: Huh? You heard us: The word “huh,” asking for quick clarification, is a “universal word,” the first studied by modern linguists. New research shows that a variety of completely different languages use the same humble “huh?,” pronounced more or less the same way, as a sort of voiced question mark slipped in when you don’t understand something.