Canadian, eh?

I think that there is no better way to start off a blog that for now will probably contain lots of things about Canada than with a few comments about "eh," eh?

I visited Victoria, British Columbia back in March for four days to see if this was a place that I wanted to live. Pretty much everyone knows that the stereotypical Canadian says "eh" to end every sentence. Well, I was shocked that for the entire four days I was in Victoria, I only heard "eh" used once. That was by a teenage girl in McDonalds. This left me thinking that using "eh" must be something that happens in Ontario.

Well once I arrived here a few days ago and got off the boat (literally), I was greated by an immigration officer that used what seemed like 2 eh's per sentence. Since then, I have long ago lost count of the number of times I've heard it. Very strange that I only heard it once when visiting.

For those keeping count (me), I've heard the following phrases the following number of times:
"all y'all": 0
"y'all": 0
"might could": 0