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I know. I can live with it. Oh, and thank you of course for considering me not a stranger.
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That "onelook" site is a cool tool! One I found that I like: skimble-scamble :0)
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Scam"ble (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scambled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scambling.] [Cf. OD. schampelen to deviate, to slip, schampen to go away, escape, slip, and E. scamper, shamble.]
1. To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble. Some scambling shifts." Dr. H. More. A fine old hall, but a scambling house." Evelyn.
2. To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble. The scambling and unquiet time did push it out of . . . question." Shak.
Scam"ble (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scambled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Scambling.] [Cf. OD. schampelen to deviate, to slip, schampen to go away, escape, slip, and E. scamper, shamble.]
1. To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble. Some scambling shifts." Dr. H. More. A fine old hall, but a scambling house." Evelyn.
2. To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble. The scambling and unquiet time did push it out of . . . question." Shak. Funny that skimble, seperately, gives no result on OneLook. Scamble does.
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In Québec the vast majority of the population says "là" at the end of every second or third spoken sentence.
Là means "there". Unless you're telling somebody a place to put something, there is absolutely no reason why the word would be used at all; yet its use is pervasive.
Can a whole society have a verbal tic?
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HA!! Took me a second to get that.
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Maybe eh is just Anglish for la?
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Ooo no. Eh means a LOT of different things. Whole essays have been written about our lovely little eh.
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In Québec the vast majority of the population says "là" at the end of every second or third spoken sentence.
Là means "there". Unless you're telling somebody a place to put something, there is absolutely no reason why the word would be used at all; yet its use is pervasive.
Can a whole society have a verbal tic? (or whatever we finally decide to call it...) Yes of course they can, eh? Canadians, New Zealanders and people from north Queensland (an Australian state) all append the word 'eh' (or 'ay' if you like - rhymes with 'day') to the end of most sentences. Most Australians don't do this, however, many do end sentences with a rising inflection similar to a question. Both phenomena seem to be saying "you do agree with what I'm saying, don't you?" and perhpas indicate some degree of cultural cringe. I can't think of a word to desribe the phenomenon this thread is about - I was going to offer "annoying" a few minutes after the original post but decided against it (great minds think alike etaoin?). However, the word for someone's own personal eccentric way of speaking would be an 'ideolect.'
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eh is certainly a Canuckism but more common in Central/East than out here. I have wondered if it arose from the Quebecois hein, "Tu vas en ville, hein?" (there is an accent but I can't find it on this computer and with my techno-klutz tendencies it would take all night to find it)
It is always irritating to read a Canadian character's dialogue written by someone from another country as the eh's are in the wrong places. The trick is to put it where you would use the US huh, "New hummer, huh?"
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