What would they say in its place though?? "Huh" strikes me as fairly universal to me. Come to think of it, I use it to express puzzlement when I'm speaking to my family in Korean.
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Vonnie K - Jul 13, 2011 11:45:26 am PDT #7103 of 10434
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2011 11:47:06 am PDT #7104 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wot?
Okay, only some of them.
Dana - Jul 13, 2011 11:48:26 am PDT #7105 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Blimey!
Vonnie K - Jul 13, 2011 11:53:37 am PDT #7106 of 10434
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
But "huh" is... I dunno. More subdued and less emphatic. There is a contemplative quality to the puzzlement. It's a super-useful term! Almost as useful as "eh", which I use all the time. Next, you're gonna tell me Brits don't use "eh" either!
Consuela - Jul 13, 2011 11:55:20 am PDT #7107 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I actually did switch out "Huh." for "Blimey," but I really really don't like it. Gonna have to think on that.
It's also got to be chronologically-appropriate, as we're talking about English schoolkids in 1939. Argh.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2011 11:56:50 am PDT #7108 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"Wot?" doesn't have to be emphatic. But, more seriously, I think I'd probably have said "What?" or "What's that?" when I was at my most British, rather than "Huh?"
Not that I've ever thought about it beforehand. I would be the worst Ameri or Britpicker EVER. I could Jampick, though. Kinda.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2011 11:58:25 am PDT #7109 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I actually did switch out "Huh." for "Blimey,"
Are they Cockney? Did your beta suggest that? That does make me remember "Cor!" which I might have said out of surprise, but not questioning.
Calli - Jul 13, 2011 11:58:49 am PDT #7110 of 10434
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Maybe, "Hmmm"?
Vonnie K - Jul 13, 2011 12:01:03 pm PDT #7111 of 10434
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
It's also got to be chronologically-appropriate, as we're talking about English schoolkids in 1939.
Oh, right. This is Narnia. I'm, like, the only person around who's never read a single Narnia book. I think I might have watched an animated version of the first book that was made back in the 1970's when I was wee (dubbed, of course.) It's like that time when I didn't know what the hell "Where the Wild Things Were" was and had people look at me askance.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2011 12:02:34 pm PDT #7112 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Vonnie, I know you're not a born American, but that's no excuse for being heathen! OMGlolol!