Jack Cade hath gotten London Bridge (William Shakespeare (Henry VI pt 2, c1591)
Well - if it was good enough for Shakespeare . . .
(it had fallen out of daily use for a few hundred years, but you do hear it nowadays from youngsters - probably more influenced by America than the Bard).
Until quite recently I thought that expression was something my Nan (mum's mother) made up. My dad's name is Bill and his parents lived a bit further west, so the Pennines (often with dark clouds bringing rain) were "o'er't back o' Bill's mother's" from her house.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
“ Until quite recently I thought that expression was something my Nan (mum's mother) made up”
A friend of mine, many years back and while at primary school, witnessed a class mate sniffing a bicycle seat. “Look at that cretin”, someone said. It was a good twenty years later that my friend learned that a cretin was not a term that only applied to bicycle seat sniffers.
I understand what innit means. It means, do you agree? Am I right? Not what I would say but it doesn't offend - much. Very much like the antipodean rising intonation which annoys me even more as it is a manifestation of a female's acceptance of male dominance in communcation.
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Well - if it was good enough for Shakespeare . . .
(it had fallen out of daily use for a few hundred years, but you do hear it nowadays from youngsters - probably more influenced by America than the Bard).
Not what I would say but it doesn't offend - much.
Very much like the antipodean rising intonation which annoys me even more as it is a manifestation of a female's acceptance of male dominance in communcation.