Enit? being non-native

[Mike Cleven]

At 10:21 PM 6/22/99 -0700, Jeffrey Kopp wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:36:34 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
>>hey, Jeff,
>>
>>I object.  I don't doubt "enit" is native; look at the use of it among the
>>Spokanes and up in Lillooet country with "oozit".  These function much
>>like Salish interrogative particles and such.  No matter that there are
>>similar-sounding interjections in other dialects of English in North
>>America -- What we have here is the so-called "Red English".
>
>Well, can you at least narrow it down to a Pepsi tribe or a Coke
>tribe?

You guys are walking on thin ice...;-)  In Canadian slang, a "pepsi" is an
extremely derisive term for a French Canadian......