Great piece on BBC today on the development of the term WHATEV-AH. It contains a history of the term and the fact that it can be used in so many ways; "I don't care", "I want to end this conversation, "I am totally depressed"....or absolutely nothing at all.

One doesn't hear the term so much in middle-class Dublin areas despite the popularity of Little Britain here. The real sociolinguistic odditiy of recent times is how teenagers have moved from trying to speak like they live in Southern England to speaking like they live in Southern California in less than one generation.

Whatev-ah the reason, it has taken more than Matt Lucas to achieve.