huh?

The other day, I had an interesting conversation with my students about the word 'huh.' Apparently, their previous teacher used the word 'huh' after everything she said and they would laugh everytime. "Did you do your homework, huh?, Where is he going, huh?" I unknowingly used it and out of the blue, they all bursted out in laughter. The previous teacher had never explained to them what it had meant, so I spent the next ten minutes trying to get them to understand. What an undertaking. In the end, we all laughed and agreed that it was quite a strange sound.