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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Is some scientist going to explain it?

I posted a link on previous page

I’ve played and played and played. Both words are on my screen at the same time. So it’s nothing to do with that!!

I can only hear Laurel!

I read on after trying it out several times. Apparently the real answer IS Laurel so I can feel smug now ;)

I can only hear Yanny nothing even remotely like Laurel

Somebody tried it with speech recognition software in the hope of getting an answer. It said "Lily"

Listened to that thing several times today & it was laurel. Now all of a sudden it's yanny again.
Ears? Brain? Who's messing me about??

Yay, I may have deaf ears but they are young deaf ears as I can only hear Yanny

This blows my mind. And I studied psychology

I can only hear Yanny. DH (same age) can only hear Laurel. Neither of us can hear any of the phonemes of the other

I heard "laurel" this morning on gmb, but now am only hearing "yanny". WTF does that mean?!

If we are hearing such different things in one word, then are there loads of sounds and words out there that everyone hears differently?

Like, if I called someone a 'dickhead' would they hear 'great bloke'? Or would 'gobshite' be heard as 'top lad'?

Ds2 hears yanny I hear laurel.

I hear yanny yanny Laurel yanny yanny yanny 😂

It's really strange as Dh and I have heard both yanny and Laurel. Our kids aged 6 & 10 also heard Laurel 🤷‍♀️

I'm only 27 and I always hear Laurel! Guess I'm old at heart

Laurel. Can’t hear yanny at all!

Laurel

I am old

My two year old thinks it says Henry

BitchQueen90 my daughter - also 27 - hears Laurel too, whereas my husband and I (71 and 64 respectively) hear Yanny.

Played it for 4yo DS and asked him what he heard without telling him the options. He also said laurel.

My DD who is 34 can only hear Laurel,my DGD who is 12 can only hear Yanny. But I'm 54 and can only hear Yanny. Is that odd?

Definitely hear Laurel and I'm English

I hear Laurel. I played it over and over again trying my hardest to pick out yanny and I just can't hear anything other than laurel!

I don't think it is to do with not hearing high frequencies as is suggested on the BBC website (they basically said that if you hear laurel it means you don't hear them well.) I can normally hear high frequencies, quite often when the person with me says they can't hear anything! I'm fascinated by things like this, I'd love to know what the actual reason is for people hearing it differently.

Laurel

We all listened to the same clip this morning, Dh and I knew the word choices choices, but not the kids.....results were -
Dh(47)-Laurel
Me(48)-Yanny
Dd1(12)-Yanny
Dd2(11)-Laurel
Ds(7)-Yaurelly (he has a severe speech disorder...which might have skewed things!)

We all said our answers at the same time, and all looked completely shocked that we heard different things!

i cannot understand how the laurel people hear laurel....unless it is some mass conspiracy, or something signifying the end of days (these are literally the most sensible answers I have)