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Thread #167435   Message #4039253
Posted By: FreddyHeadey
12-Mar-20 - 07:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: New Speak: words they are achangin
Subject: RE: BS: New Speak: words they are achangin
Senoufou ,,, 'innit'

"A dictionary of the hybrid language has been gathered by Baljinder Mahal, a Derby-based teacher and published this week as The Queen's Hinglish.

...And the dictionary identifies how the ubiquitous "innit" was absorbed into British Asian speech via "haina" - a Hindi tag phrase, stuck on the sentences and meaning "is no?".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6122072.stm