To hate the trend for adding no to the end of sentences?

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Why do people do it?!

‘Eggs don’t need to be kept in the fridge, no?’

’It’s hot in here, no?’

Why? Why is it a trend? Makes no sense whatsoever.

Yup, there's not many that rile me on here, but I can just picture the kind of person who types it and they are definite Mumsnet, tinkly laugh head tilters.

I caught myself doing this when speaking to my almost 2 year old earlier and annoyed myself. I think I've caught it off DP, who's Spanish and tends to use 'no' in place of question tags like 'isn't it?,' don't you?' etc as that's what they do in Spanish. I'm in London and day to day come across a lot of people with different first languages who do this ( and to be clear, it doesn't annoy me if when they do it). So I wonder if it's just something that many others have subconsciously caught on to as well, rather than something we are all doing deliberately.

Insisting Mom is only used in America is a LOT of people's pet peeve! Take cover - the Brummies are coming for you... 😁

Yep, tiz MOM for moi! Not Brummie but sorta North-ish Midlands!

Sourcing things is for wankers, no?

So... you didn't "source" your new whatever; you bought/found/stole it. No? Fucking rage-inducing for me

I can't say I've come across that much.

I don't like people saying, "Yeah, no", and "No, yes", prefixing a sentence in a conversation.

It's in Shakespeare though..

I do this, but the other way round. So I will add a yes to the end of a sentence.

I've just been thinking about the circumstances and I think it's when I'm asking a question that I'm pretty sure of the answer to, but need confirmation.

e.g.
You want me to bring your bag upstairs, yes?
I think the instructions are in the car, yes?

Maybe it's a way to catch the times when e.g. the bag recipient already told me they wanted it upstairs but I was only 1/2 listening and I don't want them to know I was distracted.

Hmmm, maybe I need to pay more attention. Or maybe people need to make sure they've got my attention when they're asking things of me.

I often hear, during interviews on the radio

" Yeah, but no . . . ."

Vicky Pollard started that, no?

Re the Mom being an American / Midlands thing. I have family from the Midlands (Nuneaton) and they always said Bab (for baby) and Mam for Mum (I also said Mam ad I'm a Geordie). I don't remember Mom at all. Is it purely Birmingham thing? Or is it a dialect thing in that it sounds like Mom to some people but it is actually Mam? (But sounds like Morm?)

N.B. like the Police Force / Queen conundrum Mam rhymes with Jam rather than Ma'am rhymes with Farm.

It’s actually written ‘Mom’.

My kids do it and it drives me mad!

Yes, definitely irritating! It's up there with starting a brand new sentence with 'I mean...' where nothing has been said on the subject previously that needs clarifying 😬

Said by a non native English speaker- fine
Written by a native English speaker- has a passive aggressive, smug, complacent "I'm right and you're wrong" "mine is the consensus view and you are the contrarian" "so we're all agreed- with me" feel

I find it annoying when really the person is making a statement or telling you something and it forces you to respond. Depending on who it is I just don't answer (if they're really boring and/or entitled). Just tell me ffs - or don't.

I don't like it either but have also only seen it on mn. I thought it had died down a bit in recent years.

Thanks, but I was talking about how it was heard in the spoken word.

I'm glad that someone has mentioned this problem because I absolutely hate it😡 No after every fucking sentence!!

Oh, sorry. Yes, it sounds like mom. But the o is like the o in Tom, it’s not pronounced the American way. I’m not from the Midlands but knew people who were.

This is a pretty standard way to end sentences in my language. A friend (who’s from the same country as me) once picked me up on it and explained that it’s not really a “thing” in English. I still catch myself doing it sometimes but have tried to stop!

Hehe. So confusing, but fascinating at the same time. I love learning about different dialects. Always very interesting when I speak on the phone to anyone not from my region. My Mum / Mam has a habit of mimicking others accents. I think it's her way of finding common ground ❤️

Surely the only classy way to end an English sentence is “innit?” Innit?

I don't think i mind "no" at the end of a sentence, but the one that really winds me up is "right". There's something horribly opinionated about it that if you don't actually agree then you are "wrong". Grrrrr.....

It’s ‘Like?’ where I’m from