THE ENGLISHES OF CANADA
although Gold (2008: 141) maintains that it is used more frequently and in a broader range of contexts in Canadian English than in other English varieties.
In spite of recent claims that eh continues to expand in use (Gold and Tremblay 2006), there are indications that this particle is declining in frequency in contemporary speech, at least among the younger generation. An apparent-time analysis of the fre- quency of utterance-final tags across different age cohorts carried out by Tagliamonte (2006: 325) revealed that speakers below the age of 30 used eh far less often than older speakers, preferring instead the form right, and to a lesser extent, two other variants, whatever and so, both of which appear to be on the increase.