"Sidewalk if you will."

Grr. Somebody call a constable...

When I prattled on about "yeah" and "eh," I was envisaging their use only at the end of a sentence, either a suggestion or a question, employed with the Aussie upturn inflexion. "So, you were at the pub last night, yeah?" is far friendlier than "So, you were at the pub last night, eh?", especially when you say the latter with the hint of a cynical snarl...