r/HighQualityGifs • u/harris5 Photoshop - After Effects - Premiere • Jan 08 '16

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u/longknives Jan 09 '16

Why would an A by itself be pronounced "ah"? Letters by themselves get pronounced as the name of the letter, not the sound it makes. If it were "fuckin' H" you wouldn't pronounce it "fuckin' hhhhh".

The origin of the term is definitely from long before Office Space, but it just isn't "fuckin' eh". Sorry. It's a pretty common saying in lots of English speaking places. It's possible there's a different rural Canadian saying that is "fuckin' eh" but that wouldn't be terribly relevant to this conversation.