Invariant innit, isn ´t it

Thu Sep 7 16:00:50 UTC 2006

Unless I've missed the point, there's an entry in DARE at _isn't it_ in
which evidence from their files cites _innit?_ (1993. 1994, 1995).  The
first evidence I've found in dialect dictionaries on the side of the pond
is in Wentworth's American Dialect Dictionary (c. 1944) from Michigan and
Ohio (date: 1940) with the suggestion that it comes from Dutch.  DARE
appears to cite the same evidence.

David K. Barnhart

barnhart at highlands.com

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