Yanny or Laurel?!

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AIBU to think that anyone who hears Laurel is playing a practical joke? It's definitely yanny!

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Laurel

Yanny. I’m surprised anyone hears Laurel.

I’m English and this makes me think about how my American husband and sons hear words. They pronounce Dawn as Don and there is no way I can get them to pronounce it correctly, no matter how I try.

My husband has nieces called Dawn and Laurie and the whole family pronounce their names as Don and Lorry.

Oh yeah, while I’m at it; there’s a family member called Claude and they pronounce it Clod.

Don, Lorry and Clod, I’m not kidding.

Yanny. Can't understand how people are hearing Laurel?

Me & DH only hear Laurel
Doesn't sound remotely like Yanny

DH thinks it's a hoax though and the vid just sometimes plays Laurel and then sometimes Yanny. I'm inclined to think so too.

Laurel, 100%.

Where are people hearing the long E sound of Yanni?

Yanny, no hint of Laurel.

I take it back. On this audio clip I hear Laurel;

Laurel. Where the hell is the Yani?
Is some scientist going to explain it?

This clip is Yanny.

Someone is pulling our leg.

Yanny very clearly yesterday (me and DS), Laurel very clearly today (again for both of us), I,m not convinced it's the same clip

there is no way I can get them to pronounce it correctly

Americans don't pronounce words incorrectly, just differently, surely?

I,m not convinced it's the same clip

We all listened to it together in my office today and there was a 50/50 split among my colleagues. It was totally bizarre.

DH thinks it's a hoax though and the vid just sometimes plays Laurel and then sometimes Yanny. I'm inclined to think so too.

Nope! My family and I listened to the clip together - half of us heard Yanny and half heard Laurel. Then the next day, dh and I could heard the opposite of what we heard before.

I think it's absolute bollocks. On the radio this morning it was a woman saying Laurel. Now it's a man saying Yanny. There's no way my frequencies would change within 12 hours. Somebody is having is at it

Definitely Yanny in the clips I am listening to. Absolutely no way that my ears could hear it as Laurel, it is very distinctively Yanny

I heard it on the radio yesterday and it was Laurel. Today I heard it on the telly and couldn't make a recognisable word out at all.

Definitely Yanny in the clips I am listening to. Absolutely no way that my ears could hear it as Laurel, it is very distinctively Yanny

Yanny, and I'm partly deaf so maybe Yanny is at the lower frequencies?

I heard Laurel, ( me 50 ) my 11 yr old son heard yanni !

And apparently the correct answer is...

Yanny.

Yanni is higher freq Laurel lower

My daughter said Laurel in a really low gruff voice after listening to it and then I heard it.

I can't hear Laurel, and neither can DH or my youngest DD (incidentally, she's called Laurel!) Eldest DD hears Laurel!

Last night I heard only yanny and my ds 8 heard laurel. Tonight I can only hear laurel

The youtube link above has the answer
Basically if you are younger you are more likely to her Yanny or older Laurel.

This is the pitch shifted clips linked to in the YouTube with the sound pitch lowered and raised.

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