How we spent our Canadian vacation (was "soda" in Mpls)

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Eh?  Reports of its death... you know the rest.  After many
years away from Southern Ontario I've come back to
Hamilton and have heard it all over the place--I think class
and age are more decisive factors in its rate of use than
geography.  Think hardware store or mechanic.  Having
said that, just a few weekends ago I attended a sort last-
gasp-as-a-bachelor barbecue and was treated to a whole
afternoon of ehs, from the banker sons of Korean immigrants
to retirement-aged Scottish and German immigrants.

Younger, urban kids do seem to be using it less, though.
Perhaps it is seen as old-fashioned?

Don

> Too bad it's been wiped out in such a large area (east of Sault Ste.
> Marie), but at least it's a relief that it survives somewhere.  Maybe
it'll
> stage a comeback?
>
> Peter Mc.
>
> --On Monday, August 12, 2002 1:04 AM -0500 Tom Kysilko <pds at VISI.COM>
wrote:
>
> >  However, we did not hear the
> > Canadian "eh" until Sault Ste Marie.  That included ferry passengers,
> > motel clerks, gas station attendants, waitresses, fellow diners, and
> > librarians. But West of there it was ubiquitous.
>
>
>
>
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>                                Peter A. McGraw
>                    Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
>                             pmcgraw at linfield.edu