This isn’t exactly something I don’t get but I figured this was a good thread to ask it in…
When did the phrase “issit?” in place of “did you” or “are you” appear in UK vernacular?
an example
person one: “I used to sing professionally”
person two: “Oh, is it?”
Being from Australia, I’ve only really noticed it over the past few years via UK tv shows. I suspect it was a term snatched from black culture dialect and filtered through to the mainstream. Please enlighten me!
Roadman / urban culture.
See also “Did I aks you?”
Catherine Tate and Peter Seranifowicz had a go…
“Is it” was common in South Africa when I lived there in 1999/2000. It seems to have seeped in gradually over here
a good friend of mine from the valleys of Wales has used that expression for as long as I’ve known her. the meaning is usually in the tone, varying from “oh really, tell me more” to “whateverrrr”
she is neither roadman nor urban, fam…
Yeah i think i probably heard it as a Welsh thing first but was probably the roadman dem that sent it mainstream
It comes from the Afrikaans “is dit so?” which got abbreviated to “is it?”.
I think the most fun I ever had at work was trying to teach English slang to a class of Spanish accountants in 2000, who immediately clocked you as someone who had done zero prep. I think they expected (and deserved) better than some bleary eyed misfit trying to explain the versatility of words like ‘get’ and ‘fuck’
Funny. My short lived stint as a TEFL teacher in Brighton (total blag, no TEFL experience) revolved around teaching rhyming slang. I was relegated to being an assistant taking the kids on day trips fairly quickly……
Good to know, thanks!
Also, as you know from living there, the tone and intonation it’s said in can have a hundred meanings from shock to sarcasm and all points in between.
Today I don’t get people’s opposition to capital punishment…
Trust fund wankers
Does that tit just admit to drink driving on camera?
How a lot of politicians even get a single vote.
Like who looked at Jacob Rees-Mogg and thought, “yeah, he’s got my best interests in mind.” Or Marjorie Taylor Green here in the US who is both pro-Israel and says that Jews control the weather in the same breath. It’s astounding.
Yeah still baffled as to how and why that shower of shit that populated the cabinet for so long got voted in at local level.
Can only be down to people always voting for the same party regardless of candidate. Yay democracy!
This.
Why are politicians so weird?! Why was one of them DJing? Why were they worried about some song lyrics having some deeper meaning and potentially making them look bad?
Online armchair “life coaches / inspiration ambassadors”
What?
…then there’s this chappy…
Follow this 
!
He’s probably lovely to be fair. There’s no hope for the other guy, though. Complete word salad.
Those fucking awful Phix menswear videos that proliferate my feeds for some inexplicable reason. The absolute worst clothes worn by absolute whopper models
