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like, i've got this book on our home and native language, eh? and like, it's called "canajun, eh?", eh? as a canajan eggs isle living in a forn peradize i feel i godda declare my true eye denty now and then janet ~~~~~~~~~ KAIL GREE The principal siddy of suthren Albirda. [Current residence of BillyBaird, eh?] ARSEY EM PEE A para-military police body combining the most distinctive features of the army [red coats], the secret service [Red hunting], and politics [red herrings]. Also known as 'The Moundies'. ARM SEE Royal Military College at Kingston, Ontario. HUGH ESS The Mare Can nation. So convenient has the Hugh Ess been to the development of the Canajan ethos that if the Hugh Ess did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. By the same token, if the Hugh Ess did not exist neither would Canada, much as in physics anti-matter requires matter to sustain it. For this reason, Canada's finest hours have always been dee fence of, witness The Whore of 1812, Confed Rayshun, etc. It may here be noted that the best, perhaps the only generally accepted definition of Canajan is *Not Mare Can*. BRIDDISH Of or pertaining to Grade Bridden. Sometimes contracted to Brish, as in: Brish Commwealth. YOUR PEEN Of or pertaining to the connent of Yourp. As in: "Since Grade Bridden joined the Your Peen Comm Marked wherezit leave the Brish Commwealth?" IDDLY Your Peen country. Rhymes with 'tiddly'. Along with Bridden, Germ Knee, etc., the source of many post-war imm grunts. FORNER A non-Canajan. The adjective is Forn. CLIMB IT Canada has three kinds of weather - hot, cold, and wet. Hence the only permitted conversational gambits relating to climb it are: "Hottanuff furya?", "Coldanuff furya?", and "Wetanuff furya?" These may be abbreviated to "Hot, eh?", "Cold, eh?", and "Wet, eh?". It would be meaningless and also unidiomatic to ask anyone: "Nice anuff furya?" No such expression exists in Canajun. EH? Rhymes with hay. The great Canajan monosyllable and shibboleth, 'eh?', is all things to all men. Other nations may boast their interjections and interrogative expletives - such as the Mare Can 'huh?', the Briddish 'what?', the French 'hein?', - but none can claim the range and scope of meaning that are encompassed by the simple Canajan 'eh?'. Interrogation, assertion, surprise, bewilderment, disbelief, contempt - these are only the beginning of 'eh?' and already we have passed beyond the limitations of 'huh?', 'what?', 'hein?' and their pallid analogues. To begin with, 'eh?' is an indicator, sure and infallible, that one is in the presence of an authentic Canajan speaker. Although 'eh?' may be met with in Briddish and Mare Can litter choor, no one else in the world 'eh?s' her way through life as a Canajan does, nor half so comfortably. By contrast, 'huh?' is a grunt, 'what?' foppish and affected; and 'hein?' nasal and querulous. Whereas 'eh?' takes you instantly into the speaker's confidence. Only 'eh?' is frank and open, easy and unaffected, friendly and even intimate. Forners are warned to observe extreme caution with 'eh?' since nothing will give them away more quickly than its indiscriminate use. Like the pronunciation of Skatchwan [only much more so], it is a badge of Canajanism which requires half a lifetime to learn to use with the proper panache. A teacher at Arm See suggested recently that 'eh?' is not Canajan since it may also be found in the Knighted States, the You Kay, and Sow Thafrica. In the same way sign tists have tried to prove that hockey was not invented in Canada, but Canajans remain unconvinced, eh? ~~~~~ Canajun, Eh? by Mark M. Orkin General Publishing Company 1973 ~~~~~ [log in to unmask]