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Comment by astrange

3 days ago

One thing I remember from languagelog is that almost all English speakers have a form of "yeah no" and they all think they invented it.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=30758

Might be Scottish.

Not only did Australians invent it, we also invented Pavlova, Sam Neill, etc.

  • This is like when Australians tell me they invented drinking coffee.

    (Conversely, I've seen Australians who dislike Halloween because they think it's an American invention, but it's also Scottish.)