dragon2fire

honestly i flat out screw up typing all the tmie


dam dsylexia

Averett

Tee Hee!!

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glasscutter43

I say EH even more than Homer Simpson.

What I don't say is :

Don't got

Ya'll come back, ya hear

huh and

pass the grits

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bender

I haven't found that the use of eh is regional, as people way out west in BC use it almost as often as dude.

Minx

Awwww gee thanks!

Damn this made me laugh!

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Jam

maybe your prairie folk are just a little off eh?

im from bc

lots of people say it here

i say it all the time... but only because its a stereotype you hoser... take off


ps** its pronounced ZED

Daval

I occassionally say it. But when I lived in Europe for a number of years a lot of people used to tease me when I'd say it so I basically stopped.

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paddyjoe

Now that's a great history lesson

Averett

An oldie but a goodie....


You know how Canada got their name right? Well, the folks in charge of naming the country were sitting down and they said "C eh N eh D eh"


Wow, I told that joke horribly.... I got playfully smacked for telling that joke in the company of 5 Canadian men

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Can't claim to be a canadian here... but lived in Northern Minnesota close to the border for years...

I miss the great north... the beauty... the snow... the hockey... the beer...

eh?

ChrisJericho

Don't forget the Canadian accents on "hoose" (house) and aboot (about). Those are good ones too !!

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Jam

those ive never heard... tho im from bc and as far as i can tell people from here are normal

rmarshall

You got to see Minx's beaver! Lucky dog!

lady

Hehe... Reminds me of the Maynard's Wine Gums commercial a couple years ago.

"there's a moose loose aboot this hoose!" *dances*

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oooooh yaaaa... don't you knoooow? we northerns go ooot and aboot... eh?

when I first moved to the midwest from the North I was teased mercilessly for my accent...

Motry Latchman

A proper sentence isn't complete without an "eh", eh?

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Fly

somethin' for the canadians ................eh.

goofy little site but nostalgic in a sense

http://www3.sympatico.ca/taniah/Canada/

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etla

It's not free, it is universal. We pay a monthly premium.

On topic I say eh all the time.

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Sapper

You guys have to watch FUBAR !! EH !!

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jizzmasterp

I say eh but its very natural and I dont empahasize it. Its just part of my speech like y'all.

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I catch myself saying 'eh' once in while, too. I see nothing wrong with using it or with the yanks teasing us about it. Every culture (country) has it's oddities. If we didn't, what reason would we have for laughing at others, eh?

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tinfoil

Sure I say it all the time. Huh = Eh

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james t kirk

I say eh all the time. Like, "Take care eh"

Americans say it too. I have a good friend in Buffalo who says it more than I do.

I DO NOT SAY ABOOT, nor have i met anyone who says aboot. I never got that one.

I do say roof properly, i.e. rooooooof, unlike my american friends who say "ruff" That one drives me crazy (when i watch all those american fixer upper shows)

I also say route properly, i.e. rooooooot, not "rh-out"

Monre

I say eh in the sense of "right"


Them Americans dont understand us,eh.

I do not say any words improperly more-so then you.

hobo

I say "eh" and never say "huh". "eh" sounds better, and I guess it is more Canadian so whatever. I don't think about it, it just gets said.

feelgood

It's common AND it's an American sterotype. Sure I say eh sometimes but the way I see how other American protray Canadians saying eh is just fukin stupid. Americans that play as Canadian in some comedian movies say eh all the goddamn time!

So, its common AND American sterotype.

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silent_jay

the shirt on Fubar said it best FUCKIN EH!!!

saying eh is about as canadian as Bob and Doug Mackenzie and Canada kickin the States ass again at hockey. * GO JUNIORS GO*
watch tomorrow morning 11:30 on TSN it will happen again.

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james t kirk

Sigh, I watched part of it.

THEY BLEW IT.

Congratulations to team USA, they never gave up.

Cubby

I agree James t Kirk...congrats to the US Junior team! Canada will have to look to next year.

As for saying eh..I do say it. I usually don't realize it but every now and then I do and just laugh. It is just a part of speech though...I find a lot of americans say... "you know" and "like", etc.

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jeenyus

it is kind of true but they don't have that accent like "Eiiiiii"

diddagirl

Oh my god... I say eh so very much its scary. Me and allll my friends. My b/f recently came to Canda for the first time...and couldnt believe it that EVERONE said it! Even random waitress's!

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viper11885

I myself have never said it before.

moonstrucksoul

i think all Canadians' can blame "Strange Brew" for all the stereotypes about Canada

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...And technically, east of the maritimes ~could~ be Newfoundland and Labrador, not considered a Maritime province... but still an Atlantic Province (and probably still wishing they hadn't caved in 1949).

That being said, I say "eh" all the livelong day.

Nazggul

"eh?" "Like" "Hella" "Wicked" "Ya'll"

All these regionalisms make a person sound uneducated. Sorry, but it's true. I have nothing against it, but it does communicate anything positive about you when you use it.

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kulrblind

I can say with some certainty that it doesn't come through in my business discussions, but rather in a social, or informal setting. That is, I can use it when it's "appropriate."

I wonder how many San Francisco lawyers use "hella" in their colloquial language but not in their legal briefs. Corollary: I wonder how many "Y'all" -speaking Southerners actually use "You all" (which is still a silly thing to say) periodically.

indiretto

I worked with a Canadian for a while and she said eh, even though she swore she didn't, I caught her a couple of times. She didn't say it as much as the sterotype type would suggest though, only once in awhile. Just my two bits...

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bigbad

Vancouver representing

wry1

Nope, Minx didn't miss the best thing about (or "aboot", as it's pronounced up there) Canada....she is the best thing about Canada!.

....but that's just my opinion. I could be right.

New Yorkers do that too, with "Or What?"...(i.e.- You got a problem, or what? or Hey, drop dead...or what?)...it's kind of spooky.

No you won't...."A" seems to be the only vowel you guys are familiar with, so I'm not getting my hopes up......just look at the name of your country: Canada...