Interesting post today on the British Library’s Sound Recordings Blog, which explores the term ‘innit’. Obviously this word is one I have looked into a great deal, mostly during the writing of We’re British, Innit. I first came across it being used by members of the Greek community (immigrants and second generation) in Thanet, where I grew up. Though I do have some memory of it being in use in Cockney and London/Kent English before that, especially as depicted in uses of slang in popular culture.

You can hear it being used by, I think, Keith Moon, in this very odd 1966 Who track. Though there are examples in film going back to the 1950s at least.

This neat satire on the Giles Coren sub-editing controversy takes in our continuing ability to want to laugh at the Germans (which is why we continue to use the word schadenfreude rather than thinking of our own word, which we could if we wanted) and the wonders of the English language. Enjoy.