'What?!' — the Japanese interjection, shouted, as it was in a 1984 anime whose famous exchange became a 2017 meme. The word has since been used by anglophones for any surprise at all, usually in a bad accent. The record's entry for the loanword that is always in capitals and always mis-stressed.
A reader points out the famous line is a response, not a question, and that 'nani' alone is the half everyone remembers. The record agrees and has adjusted its shouting accordingly.
The record notes 'nani' is pronounced NAH-nee and not NAN-eye, that the internet has settled on the wrong one, and that the record has given up.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
