You know how you hear something you say all the time and it suddenly sounds very odd indeed? Had that moment yesterday, on the phone with Stuart. He'd been at a meeting and had said he'd call me to let me know when he was coming home. So practically the first thing I said to him was, "Is that you?"
Now, I wasn't asking him who he was. I was saying, "Is that you done with your meeting?" Around here, such questions are usually shortened to "Is that you?", leaving off the "done/finished'.
Now that my attention's been drawn to it, I'm curious to know if this is a UK-wide habit, let alone something you use in the US. Or just another regional UK variation.
LabRat
