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05-17-2018, 07:00 AM
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It came from some kind of high school assignment where the student heard the word "laurel" according to a CBS News segment last night.
Yanny or Laurel debate: Do you hear Laurel or Yanny in the audio clip? And what's the explanation? - CBS News
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Wired magazine solved part of the mystery Wednesday when it revealed the origins of the audio recording in question. Katie Hetzel, a freshman at Flowery Branch High School in Georgia, had a question about one of her vocabulary words, "laurel." "She looked it up on Vocabulary.com, and played the audio. Instead of the word in front of her, she heard 'yanny.'" Wired reports.
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