We take things like that for granted if we grew up with them. I just wonder how much variations of English have blended thanks to TV etc. Kids here will use US and Australian terms all the time now.
Here in Bedfordshire, UK you may hear people add 'right' to the end of sentences like the Canadian 'eh'. They will also talk about 'old boys', but that can be someone of any age. There's an old guy (actually old) who empties the litter bins and he always says 'Alright me old mate?' to me even though I don't really know him.
Of course US and UK English have lots of differences.
That is a good one. I think there were some instances while I was watching Ted Lasso and The Gentleman where they were using that term "right" that you were talking about. I feel like there was another one too, but I can't remember it now.
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I don't think I ever used ope, at least not often. When I was growing up I was always very interested in language (I even took an etymology class in high school) so I was hyper aware of regional slang and non-standard dialect and I avoided using any of it in my speech. That wasn't necessarily just me; I remember my social group at school all had this idea that using the local dialect made you sound like white trash. Funny enough, as I get older I find myself slipping into the midwest accent a bit, with creek sometimes coming out as crick, root as rut, etc—even adding an r to my washes (not often, but I have heard myself say it that way occasionally). My accent is probably something of a mess now. Often when I am teaching I will adopt the British RP pronunciation of a word if it makes that word easier for students to hear (for example, for adult ae-dullt instead of ah-dullt because using the ae sound makes it stand out more from any preceding an article), so we get Midwest, RP, standard US, and who knows what else.
Funny how words are used and others listening would just not get it. What gets to me is how the English language is butchered by the English and was more of a lower class type thing and it is just accepted now.
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We take things like that for granted if we grew up with them. I just wonder how much variations of English have blended thanks to TV etc. Kids here will use US and Australian terms all the time now.
Here in Bedfordshire, UK you may hear people add 'right' to the end of sentences like the Canadian 'eh'. They will also talk about 'old boys', but that can be someone of any age. There's an old guy (actually old) who empties the litter bins and he always says 'Alright me old mate?' to me even though I don't really know him.
Of course US and UK English have lots of differences.
That is a good one. I think there were some instances while I was watching Ted Lasso and The Gentleman where they were using that term "right" that you were talking about. I feel like there was another one too, but I can't remember it now.
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I don't think I ever used ope, at least not often. When I was growing up I was always very interested in language (I even took an etymology class in high school) so I was hyper aware of regional slang and non-standard dialect and I avoided using any of it in my speech. That wasn't necessarily just me; I remember my social group at school all had this idea that using the local dialect made you sound like white trash. Funny enough, as I get older I find myself slipping into the midwest accent a bit, with creek sometimes coming out as crick, root as rut, etc—even adding an r to my washes (not often, but I have heard myself say it that way occasionally). My accent is probably something of a mess now. Often when I am teaching I will adopt the British RP pronunciation of a word if it makes that word easier for students to hear (for example, for adult ae-dullt instead of ah-dullt because using the ae sound makes it stand out more from any preceding an article), so we get Midwest, RP, standard US, and who knows what else.
Funny how words are used and others listening would just not get it. What gets to me is how the English language is butchered by the English and was more of a lower class type thing and it is just accepted now.