Saying "innit" all the time, at first ironically and then compulsively, innit?

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Why do I do this, innit?

Oh yeh, and my particular favourite dialectal mechanism has to be something particular to East Anglia - the variation "is it".

Example:

A: Where are you from?
B: I'm from Luton
A: Is it?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

VICTOR!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't it.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i do this, and am not proud...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Using "is it?" to mean "Really? Is that the case?" isn't confined to East Anglia at all - round this way it's entered into common usage as well.

Personally, I find it tre annoying, but what do I know.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it ain't East Anglia.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Personally, I find it tre annoying, but what do I know.

Is it? Spelling foreign words wrongly is annoying too, innit.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh lummy, guilty as charged.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope. Never. "Dude" has infected me, but mercifully, I'm innit-free.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I was spelling it ironically.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

After yeeeeeears of saying 'innit' after sentences willy-nilly, imagine my surprise to discover people doing it all over this forum.

― New No New Age Advanced Ambient Motor Music Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmembers of my fam have a tendency to say "isit?" a lot.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"innit" is an excelent word because it has made a negative into a positive.

― matthew james (matthew james), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

a double negative into a standalone positive, at least.

― matthew james (matthew james), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

derbyshire be saying int'it

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

'is it?' caught on round my old way, with hilarious results (or not).

bonus points for replying 'believe'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

'innit' superseded by 'y'git mih' a while back of course, a deliberate ploy as it's harder to pronounce properly so 'we' can't steal it as much. capital!

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"innit" vs "yeh?"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Any involuntary conversational trope is annoying.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd never say simply "is it" alone.

But I might say, "where are you from, Luton is it?"

Or "what time's the bus, 8.30 is it?". That's different though I guess.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I am like this with "grand, so".

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"grand, so" is a foundation of Irish society.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

that and "I will in my hole"

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm on the pigs back!!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Oh aye" and "innit" are probably the two things I say most, innit. Oh aye.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The Glaswegian appendage to a sentence is 'but'.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

innit > yeh > is it

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

word.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I say innit, but not ironically, it's just part of the nomenclature innit?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

wuz saying "yeh" for a while there.. about a week (without realizing it). Then a friend said that if he wanted to hear david brent, he'd watch the office. HAVEN'T SAID IT SINCE.

― mandee, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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