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Do English people say "huh"?

When they don't hear something and need someone to repeat what they've said

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  • Jamie
    Lv 6
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    No, they say "flippity floppity what what?"

  • 9 years ago

    Only if they are being very informal, or just plain rude.

    I was taught as a child humbly to beg someone's pardon, but I mostly just asked "What?" at least in the school playground, where the reply was most often "You heard!" and, on reflexion, I mostly realised that, indeed, I had and could recall: it had been just the surprise of an unexpected remark that had made it fail to register immediately.

    I always remember a rather uncouth army sergeant whose reaction to any remark he deemed inappropriate or unwelcome was always, "Yer wot?" uttered so fiercely that few of us ever had the courage to repeat whatever it was we had the temerity to complain about in the first case. I do not think that a mere "huh?" could ever have had the same crushing effect.

    Source(s): Eighty odd years of usng our exasperating native tongue in all its wondrous heights and abysmal depths, in three continents.
  • 9 years ago

    Yes but is more uh, which isn't very polite, usually we say pardon, sorry I didn't quite catch what you said, excuse me, what, also not polite.

    Just remembered a lot of English people also say A of hay if they do not hear someone, which is not very polite !

  • Martyn
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    We can do. To be honest, most of us are polite enough to say 'pardon'. Probably due to our accent, 'Eh' comes out more easily than 'huh', and a lot of people do just ask 'what?'. My personal choice combines two of these: 'eh what?'

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  • 9 years ago

    (HUH/EH)...people say Huh? to show that they have not heard what somebody has just said

    ‘Are you feeling OK?’ ‘Huh?

    it is most common for americans but now its getting popular among britain as well but most of britain still says "eh" instead of "huh"..

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Sometimes they do. And they also say what or pardon. Or even, 'eh'?

    Source(s): I'm English.
  • 9 years ago

    Yes we do. We also say 'what?' 'eh?' 'sorry?' 'pardon?' and obviously 'huh?'

    :)

  • 9 years ago

    We say what or pardon.

  • 9 years ago

    Yeah they do. But it sounds like they're moaning like "Uh"

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    yes and no depends if you have manners or not

    Source(s): I'm English we say huh and pardon depending on the situation of the convertastion
  • Monkey
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    No, they sometimes say "eh".

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