Originally Posted by
pgolier
There is also the Vancouver habit of inserting "right?" into a sentence of fact - as in "Tim Horton's sells good coffee, right?, so I'm going to get some on Saturday morning."
Maybe this is the more cultured alternate to "eh."?
Using "right" for emphasis seems to come and go with the ages and I'm pretty sure not only in Canada but elsewhere. I haven't really noticed it being interjected in the middle of a sentence of fact. It's sort of like young (Californian?) women using "like.. you know" for the same. I remember an older oiker of an Australian use "ay" (sounding like truncated "eye" with uptone) for the same.
FWIW, I've heard that older (50+) natives of Vancouver apparently used to pronounce the city name as "van(g)couver" though I've really yet to hear it (probably due to the lack of "natives".)