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Trinidadian English: "ent?" I think there's an innate human desire to modify the sentence to make it a question with as few additional sounds as possible.
by interestica 3y ago
Trinidadian English: "ent?"
I think there's an innate human desire to modify the sentence to make it a question with as few additional sounds as possible.
- _a_a_a_ 3y agoEnglish English: "innit?"
- metaxy2 3y agoI wonder if "ent" evolved from "innit" under British colonization (or they both evolved from a common ancestor in British English).
- interestica 3y agoBoth probably from "is it not > isn't it" Canadian's have 'eh?' that serves basically the same function.
- metaxy2 3y agoAmericans (and I'd imagine the British) have "eh?" too, it's just not as common ("not bad, eh?"). Among Americans I feel like I've seen it more in casual written online conversation than in speech.
- arrowsmith 3y agoIn some places pronounced "ennit?"