Innit (From Asian Image)

Innit

11:30am Thursday 12th May 2011 in Last Bit By The Last Bit

Boy, this one has been long time coming ...innit.

The word’ Innit’, short for ‘I’m too lazy to finish the sentence’, has become almost as Asian as perving at the neighbour’s wife.

But we have done this word a disservice over the years. Wherever you go you will hear this famous word used in every sentence.

Normally the person saying it has no idea they have said it.

Young kids, their dads, their dads dads and their mums have made this word their own.

Even those who pretend to be richer than everyone else can’t help themselves from saying it.

But some time ago this was not the case. We hated the word ‘innit’ because only the common guys with the tennisball haircuts and the Sheela Shaanee’s with their baggy trousers used the word.

Everyone else frowned upon this word as it made them feel ‘lower class’.

Funnily enough even the freshies found the word offensive. ‘Brother, I went to Ingland and all they said was ‘innit’ this and ‘innit’ that'.

Sometimes you would hear the word and turn your nose up at the silly boys and girls who just couldn’t say ‘Isn’t it’.

But then it happend - they all started saying it. When we agreed with something we blurted out ‘innit’.

Common everyday language was taken over by this wonderful word. And it didn’t matter where you used it.

For a moment it was nearly as common as that other firm favourite of ours...’alee!’ “My rotee tastes a little salty..innit.’ “Can I have garlic and chilli with that..innit.”

“My wife is at Asda again..innit.”

“What time you going to be at the shadee?..innit.”

‘You’re such a motee’...she said, ‘Innit’ was the reply.

Alee, at times you could begin and end a sentence with both of these words, innit.

The posh folk, the poor folk, the polite people with the Urdu-speaking wives - everyone was at it. Even the converts got in on the act and after having been introduced to Asian culture ended up saying ‘innit’ to fit in.

But all good things must come to an end and what once ended in ‘innit’ has now become ‘sick’.

Sick innit...