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What is the difference between What in the world~? and What on earth~? and What the hell~? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between What in the world~? and What on earth~? and What the hell~? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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They are all about the same. They express disbelief, confusion, and annoyance
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They are all the same. They all express the idea of you being both surprised and not exactly understanding what is going on.
What the hell?! is slightly more crude due to the use of "hell."
A parent walks into a child's bedroom and discovers everything in the room is wrapped in aluminum foil. The child is 10 years old.
Why on earth did you do this?!
What on earth were you thinking?!
A parent walks into their child's bedroom. The child is 16, smoking, and in bed with a girl.
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!
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