Why Do Canadians Say ‘Eh’? I'm sharing this just because of this. "If I say “you’re an idiot, eh?”, what I’m saying is, you’re an idiot, but you should also think you’re an idiot, and our understanding of you as an idiot finds us on common ground."
is it the whole country, or just certain parts? seems to me, in the usa, there are different colloquialisms in different area's i do hear it a lot in the nhl
My Canadian friends ask me, "Why do Americans say, "Huh?" I confess that I kind of like "eh." "Huh" just sounds uncouth by comparison. Not that I'm ever uncouth. "WAIT!! Pull my finger!"
When we went to the Vancouver Olympics in 2010, there was plenty of “eh” to go around. The hockey and curling events had it rampant .
The trucking in of snow to Whistler was particularly endearing . But 50’s in the city was another perk of Vancouver being chosen. I love the best coast .
It is my opinion, being somewhat impartial for having lived a roughly equal amount of time in Canada and the USA, that Canadians purposely overuse the expression "eh" to emphasize their uniqueness as Canadians, when there otherwise may be not enough to distinguish themselves from Americans. If you ask me, it comes from feeling ignored and disrespected by their much larger neighbour (neighbor) to the south.
There's all sorts of verbal tic sign-offs. Similar to eh: "you know". Then there's my least favourite prefix: "Look".
A friend used to say… “If the Pilgrims had landed in California, the Northeast would still be uninhabited.” Sad but true, eh?
It might be nice for some of us that are out here if they did. Land is very expensive and could have saved us some coin. The land my folks are on has been in the family for over 200 years. Would be nice to have that out here in the Bay Area .
Ya, shur, yoobetchya!! Lot's of "eh's" going around the two years I went to school in Langley, BC. Lots of rain, too, eh? But, MY was it pretty when the sun came out!!!!
