Friday, January 11, 2002 :

Heard a good example on the bus today of how the speech of London's youth is changing away from old-style Cockney / estuary English to a Tim Westwood-style dialect influenced by / attempting to ape certain accents of British Asian and Afro-Caribbean origin. White male, about 19, standard hooded top/baseball cap hip-hop type look... mobile phone rings with suitably irritating bespoke ringtone...

Nah, I'm on the bus, man, innit. Yeh, I'll be there in a minute, man, innit. Fuckin' buses innit. A'ii, sweet.

Grammatical query - should one insert a question mark after the word "innit" where it is used as a seemingly inappropriate addition at the end of a sentence that is otherwise a statement rather than a question innit?

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