“Breathy-Voiced Long Low Back Unrounded Vowel with Advanced Tongue Root”; Or, “Augh”

From James Harbeck (the indisputable star of the above video) at The Week:

This is usually spelled something like auuggghhh. It’s the classic teenage sound of utter exasperation. The eyes are usually angled upwards, sometimes in contrast with a downward movement of the shoulders. “Breathy-voice” means that the vocal folds are wide apart, giving a very “chesty” sound. “Advanced tongue root” means that the back of the tongue is moved forward to make a larger resonating cavity behind it. “Low back” means the tongue doesn’t rise anywhere in the mouth (compare this with “eee,” which is high front). “Unrounded” means the lips aren’t rounded.

I hear it’s totally normal if you do some of these and are not a teen, though.

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