Below is a sample of some of the media coverage our work has received over the years. Most of this is tracked by ImpactStory.
- 📰 The Chronicle: School exam baffles students: Why ‘huh?’ is a universal word (Oct 2020)
- 📰 Herald Sun (AU): Test asks students ‘weird’ questions (Oct 2020)
- 📰 New York Times: How Language Came to Be — and How We Use it Today (Mar 2018)
- 📰 SZ Magazin: Häh? Über die Weltkarriere eines Wörtchens (Oct 2016)
- 📰 Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Warum wir beim Reden so viele Fehler machen (Jun 2016)
- 📰 Corriere Della Sera: In difesa del premio igNobel: «Prima fa ridere e poi pensare» (Sep 2015)
- 📰 The Atlantic: What did you say? (Sep 2015)
- NY Mag: The Universality of the Word ‘Huh?’ (Sep 2015)
- NPR: A whole other kind of linguistic universal (Sep 2015)
- 📰 Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Häh? Ein Wort von Welt (Apr 2015)
- Scientific American: The Great Wide World of Huh? (Oct 2014)
- Smithsonian Magazine: “Huh”? What makes this utterance the universal word? (Mar 2014)
- 📰 Die Welt: „Häh?“ – Die kürzeste Form für „Versteh ich nicht“ (Dec 2013)
- 📰 New Statesman: What’s the one world that’s the same in every language? (Nov 2013)
- 📰 Süddeutsche Zeitung: ‘Hä?’ — Das wichtigste Wort der Welt (Nov 2013)
- 📰 New York Times: The Syllable Everyone Recognises (Nov 2013)
