Awhile back, I noticed that I seemed to be speaking some dialect of English of unknown origin:
When I complete a task successfully, I say "Good-good." There are forms of English in which this is standard, but I've never lived around people who said it.
When someone thanks me for help, I don't say "'Tweren't nothin'" or "No problem," I say "Always-always." Gee, where did that come from?
There are more examples, but they'll have to wait for another time. I can't recall them right now.
[Update, 6 November: I still can't think of any of my other peculiarities of speech, except for a tendency to say "on offer" instead of "available" or "for sale". That's a Britishism, I think.]
//The Magic Eight-Ball says, //"Speak and be counted."\\
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