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oldironside

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14. Actually I am interested.

Mon Dec 12, 2011, 07:26 AM

Dec 2011

I'm a linguist, but it seems there's a gap in my knowledge. It's clear to me it's the contracted form of the question tag, but I assume you mean that question tags were adopted from one of the languages British soldiers came into contact with during the Raj. Pray do tell. Maybe there will be some clarification as to why people from Ulster use different forms, so they do.

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