I’m a bit late to this, but the word going around my brain is fatuous. Anything else I can help with, then just tell me to **** off.
And vacuous. Starts with 'le' ie phonetic 'l'. There's no 'y' there. If some really do hear yanny it just shows how weirdly marvellous our brains are.
Sorry to be so boring about this but I used to be a scientist. Yanny/Laurel effect is actually really real and caused by in which area of frequency you can hear best and this varies from person to person. It is shown on the frequency diagram on this page below Lars Riecke, assistant professor of audition and cognitive neuroscience at Maastricht University, explained: "If you remove all the low frequencies, you hear yanny. If you remove the high frequencies, you hear laurel. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/wor...other-as-frenzy-sweeps-internet-a3841041.html So if your ears hear better in the upper frequencies you hear yanny, those who hear lower frequencies hear laurel. It is why some people hear dog whistles and other people don't See.......science is really cool!
Having argued about this with a couple of friends, came back to this to prove that it's Yanny.....only to hear Laurel this time and hard as I try, I can't hear Yanny anymore....someone is messing with my brain (or was it the beer last night???)
According to Beth that means your balls have dropped since the first time you listened to it. Congratulations.
