Innit?

[nq:1]I watched "Bend it like Beckham" last weekend, and one usage struck me as odd: those kids stuck an "innit?" at the end of sentences, whether that was the correct form or not. Is this common? What is that dangling question called anyway?[/nq]
It's slang. Except when it *is* the correct form, when it isn't. So 'That's a big house, innit?' is standard if dialect speech. 'She's a big girl, i

[nq:2]I watched "Bend it like Beckham" last weekend, and one ... Is this common? What is that dangling question called anyway?[/nq]
[nq:1]It's slang. Except when it *is* the correct form, when it isn't. So 'That's a big house, innit?' is standard if dialect speech. 'She's a big girl, innit?' is slang.[/nq]
You could have given an even better slang example or two, innit?
[nq:1]It's all

John Dean filted:
[nq:2]I watched "Bend it like Beckham" last weekend, and one ... Is this common? What is that dangling question called anyway?[/nq]
[nq:1]It's slang. Except when it *is* the correct form, when it isn't. So 'That's a big house, innit?' is standard if dialect speech. 'She's a big girl, innit?' is slang. It's all the rage wiv the yoof.[/nq]
"Innit" is the English equival

[nq:1]I watched "Bend it like Beckham" last weekend, and one usage struck me as odd: those kids stuck an "innit?" at the end of sentences, whether that was the correct form or not. Is this common? What is that dangling question called anyway?[/nq]
It's a rather common in casual speech, you know?
Brian Rodenborn

[nq:1]John Dean filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]It's slang. Except when it *is* the correct form, when ... innit?' is slang. It's all the rage wiv the yoof.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Innit" is the English equivalent of German "nicht wahr" or Japanese "ne"..r[/nq]
... and the Latvian "vai ne".
In Thuringia they say "gel" or "gelle" (with a hard g), as I recall?
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:1]I watched "Bend it like Beckham" last weekend, and one usage struck me as odd: those kids stuck an "innit?" at the end of sentences, whether that was the correct form or not. Is this common? What is that dangling question called anyway?[/nq]
Tag question, innit?

[nq:1]I watched "Bend it like Beckham" last weekend, and one usage struck me as odd: those kids stuck an "innit?" at the end of sentences, whether that was the correct form or not. Is this common? What is that dangling question called anyway?[/nq]
Illiterate.

[nq:1]"Innit" is the English equivalent of German "nicht wahr" or Japanese "ne"..r[/nq]
Ah. Now I see. There's a similar term in Danish. "Ikk'" being short of "Ikke", meaning "not", and stuck at the end of sentences, where "not" makes no sense at all, by teenagers. I'll have to admit that I used to use it, and that it had gotten to the point where I even used it when speaking English (the Dani

[nq:1]I watched "Bend it like Beckham" last weekend, and one usage struck me as odd: those kids stuck an "innit?" at the end of sentences, whether that was the correct form or not. Is this common? What is that dangling question called anyway?[/nq]
It's called a "tag question":
From

[nq:1]I watched "Bend it like Beckham" last weekend, and one usage struck me as odd: those kids stuck an "innit?" at the end of sentences, whether that was the correct form or not. Is this common? What is that dangling question called anyway?[/nq]
"Innit" is the more correct form of the rather slangy "ennit".

The latter is an evolved vocalization of "ain't it" and is frowned upon beca