Wot?
Okay, only some of them.
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Wot?
Okay, only some of them.
Blimey!
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!
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.
"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.
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.
Maybe, "Hmmm"?
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.
Vonnie, I know you're not a born American, but that's no excuse for being heathen! OMGlolol!
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Now, Anne of Green Gables? We were ALL OVER that. And A Dog of Flanders, which I was surprised to hear was not that very popular here (it IS an awful downer.)
And don't even talk to me about Sesame Street. I still don't know what Bert and Ernie look like.