Human exclamations of pain are similar across the world, new study reveals
- Written by Maïa Ponsonnet, Researcher, Linguistics, The University of Western Australia
We all know what words we might shout out when we stub a toe or touch something hot. For those of us who speak English, it’s probably “ouch”.
But what kinds of “pain words” (or “interjections”) do speakers of other languages use to express pain? And do these interjections feature...