509: ouch Apr 30, 2016

It seems natural to say or yell 'ouch' as a reaction to pain, but it is less simple than that. Though it is true that making noise is a natural way to deal with physical pain, that are all learned over time beginning during childhood, and separate cultures tend to have different exclamations. 'Ouch' became the convention after the vast migrations of Germans influenced the language with their 'autch' of the same pronunciation.