[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]But i don't know where they get 'G'day' because i've never heard anyone say that without it being on purpose.[/quote:post_uid0]
Or 'Eh?' I used to say it as an affectation, but I think it's grown on me.[/color:post_uid0] |
[color=#000000:post_uid0]^ Think that one's really from Minnes[b:post_uid0]o[/b:post_uid0]ta.[/color:post_uid0]
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[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's Canadian too, I had a friend who used to do it all the time from Canada, but he kept getting teased about it, so he tried to stop using it. But, yeah, it's a common thing in Canada - I think, kind of like Americans and "like."[/color:post_uid0]
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[color=#000000:post_uid0]And then there's "GAH!" I picked up "GAH!" from the members of this forum. (or rather, a certain member of this forum...) It's stuck with me now...
As I told Sa'ar, the Psi Corps has got to be lurking somewhere...[/color:post_uid0] |
[color=#000000:post_uid0]Eh is pretty common, eh, but not like Americans use, eh, we use it more naturally, eh. Do you get what I'm saying, eh, do yah?[/color:post_uid0]
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[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]As I told Sa'ar, the Psi Corps has got to be lurking somewhere...[/quote:post_uid0]
The Corps is Mother. The Corps is Father. Eat your vegetables.[/color:post_uid0] |
[color=#000000:post_uid0]I use Eh all the time which could have to do with my proximity to Canada or my proximity to Minnesota, the votes still out.[/color:post_uid0]
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[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0]It's Canadian too, I had a friend who used to do it all the time from Canada, but he kept getting teased about it, so he tried to stop using it.[/quote:post_uid0]
I can empaphise - when I first moved to Lewis everyone picked up on the fact that I pronounced 'h' like 'aich', rather than 'haich'. Drove me nuts, especially as there's one in my name, and of course I had to spell it out to every teacher in the school what felt like three times over.[/color:post_uid0] |
[color=#000000:post_uid0]you mean just pronouncing the letter h? i say it aich too how ive never heard it any other way[/color:post_uid0]
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[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yup - apparently that's the Lewisian norm.[/color:post_uid0]
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[color=#000000:post_uid0][quote:post_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"]British Columbians deride Albertans as flatlanders.[/quote:post_uid0]
My dad found a limerick about them in a stall at a rest stop near the BC-ALTA border. It was crass and involved digestive function. [quote:post_uid0]I'm not sure what they call us.[/quote:post_uid0] Pot-smoking bitter-hippies, I would think. ;)[/color:post_uid0] |
[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Yup - apparently that's the Lewisian norm.[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]It's not just Lewis, though. I know I've run across it in Dickens at least once ([i:post_uid0]David Copperfield[/i:post_uid0], I think, but don't hold me to that) and I'm pretty sure elsewhere.[/color:post_uid0] |
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