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[Elroy Jetson]

That final colloquialism Eh?, known as "an invariant tag" I suspect has traveled south with "snowbirds" from Canada.

"Innit" (isn't it?) is the UK variant of the Canadian "Eh". https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-canadians-say-eh

Australians lilt-up the last word in a sentence to convey the same meaning of a potential question without the need for an innit or an eh.

An invariant tag is something added on to the end of a sentence that’s the same every time it’s used. A tag, in linguistics, is a word or sound or short phrase added after a thought which changes that thought in some way.

The most common tags are question tags, which change a thought into a question. “It’s a nice day, isn’t it?” would be one example. The tag “isn’t it” turns that statement of fact into something that could prompt a response; the speaker is asking for confirmation or rejection.

"Why not throw it in the trash rather than on the ground ?" graffiti from British Colomba