"Is it" appended to questions

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> Even in the US, familiarity with "innit" predates Ali G. Cf.,
> e.g., the imported comic strip, "Andy Capp."
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While I, like Wilson, remember seeing "innit" in "Andy Capp", I can't
find an example.
Newspaperarchive has 35,000 hits for "Andy Capp", and zero for ("Andy
Capp" AND innit").
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