Aug 11, 2022 · It appears that innit should no longer be regarded as a simple invariant tag. It tends to behave more and more like a pragmatic marker serving to express the speaker's attitude to the …

I’m from Japan and recently visited London. I had the chance to converse with a lot of people and hear other people’s conversations. But for the life of me I couldn’t figure out how “innit” is used. I originally …

2 innit is not slang. It's a dialectal tag in some varieties of British English. It is a stand in for tags like this: He likes me, doesn't he? He likes me, innit? They're nice people, aren't they? They're nice people, …

Jul 30, 2020 · As others have said, 'innit' is just 'isn't it'. It also gets used where I come from (small seaside town overrun with tourists in the summer) as a derogatory term for said tourists, based on …

Nov 6, 2020 · What's the appropriate use of the British slang phrase "innit?" I'm not from the UK, but I'm trying to understand when one uses the phrase "innit", as in, "isn't it?" (at least, i think). It appears it …

May 29, 2021 · What does "innit" mean? Seems like a verbal question mark.... correct? Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.

Jun 19, 2023 · "Innit" is a working-class English phrase that is (now, perhaps deliberately), ALWAYS used when it seems (to American ears) like it's the wrong question; it's more of a synonym for …

Sep 3, 2022 · じゃん (jan) is a closer approximation of "innit", in usage, dialectalism, formality, etymology, and meaning. (It's an abbreviation of じゃない which means "isn't") edit: ne is closer in …

In Britain, ' innit ' is now used in street language as a catch-all tag question, exactly like n'est-ce pas. The whole point of it is that is not inflected, but used for everything, and that's what raises some …

Oct 8, 2020 · I was reading the post about imigrants feeling british when a few people said "saying innit" was one of their things. Do people really say innit? I…