How to pronounce “just-so story”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A story which supposedly explains the beginning or early development of a current state of affairs; a myth, a pourquoi story.
• (literature) A story, especially one for children, featuring animals as characters.
• (social sciences, especially anthropology, philosophy, chiefly derogatory) An untestable explanation for something, such as a form of behaviour, a biological trait, or a cultural practice.

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