Is there Anyone here now? - I want to ask an important question

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]But i don't know where they get 'G'day' because i've never heard anyone say that without it being on purpose.[/quoteost_uid0]

Or 'Eh?' I used to say it as an affectation, but I think it's grown on me.[/colorost_uid0]

[mudshark]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]^ Think that one's really from Minnes[bost_uid0]o[/bost_uid0]ta.[/colorost_uid0]

[Saxamaphone]

[color=#000000ost_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."[/colorost_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000ost_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...[/colorost_uid0]

[Opium]

[color=#000000ost_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?[/colorost_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]As I told Sa'ar, the Psi Corps has got to be lurking somewhere...[/quoteost_uid0]

The Corps is Mother. The Corps is Father. Eat your vegetables.[/colorost_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000ost_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.[/colorost_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_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.[/quoteost_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.[/colorost_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]you mean just pronouncing the letter h? i say it aich too how ive never heard it any other way[/colorost_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Yup - apparently that's the Lewisian norm.[/colorost_uid0]

[Nan]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"]British Columbians deride Albertans as flatlanders.[/quoteost_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.

[quoteost_uid0]I'm not sure what they call us.[/quoteost_uid0]
Pot-smoking bitter-hippies, I would think. [/colorost_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quoteost_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Yup - apparently that's the Lewisian norm.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]It's not just Lewis, though. I know I've run across it in Dickens at least once ([iost_uid0]David Copperfield[/iost_uid0], I think, but don't hold me to that) and I'm pretty sure elsewhere.[/colorost_uid0]