What dialect is それはねぇべ (それはないだろう)?
It seems I hear it a lot from people from Chiba. Is it from a specific part of Chiba or even a wider area?
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Sign up to join this communityIt's widely used in Kanto and Tohoku regions to a varying degree. Stereotyped Tohoku dialect uses っぺ instead of べ(ー), though.
東京方言
伝統的な関東方言・東北方言では意思・同意・推量の語尾は「べ(え)」であり、「行くべ」や「これだべ」「これだんべ」「これだっぺ」などと言うが、東京方言では「行こう」や「これだろ(う)」と言う。「う・よう」の使用が広まる以前は江戸でも「べ(え)」を多用し、当時上方の人間から「関東べい」と呼ばれていた。