Comments on: picksburghese n’at

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:41:20 +0000

Boyfriend is not from Pittsburgh (he hails from the Latrobe area) but I am so all about his hilarious accent. His most egregious pronunciation is that “window” comes out as “winder.” I think it’s really cute.

By: Scooterbird

Scooterbird — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:50:44 +0000

It’s every bit as hard to get the Bawlamer out of the boy. Every so often my greetings come out “Hayaduin?” and I still add “hon” after everything, though I’ve never gone “downy ayshin, hon”. Travolta was off in a couple of places but he didn’t do a bad job with it in Hairspray. And yeah, that song “Good Morning, Baltimore” still bring a tear to my eye. How ’bout them Eh-Oh’s, hon.

By: Corrie

Corrie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:34:47 +0000

My father is straight out of Ben Avon and my mother is representing Philly. which is why I have never uttered the words Pop or Yinz. I have heard my father say such awful things as, redd up, warsh, crick and a place called Islay’s, but my mom had the good sense to speak gangster Philly speak to me.

I cringe every time I hear my neighbor say, “Yinz guys”. I feel my skin crawl.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:52:51 +0000

Ahh, yes, me forebears from the auld sod, unable to abide the lack of a second person plural pronoun, but getting on brilliantly for centuries with no words for “yes” or “no”.

It’d be hard to do a site like this for Jersey because there are so many regional accents. “Dis ain’t nuttin. Yiz shoulda heard me whu’my accent was rilly fukkin tick!”

By: rachelraven

rachelraven — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:19:09 +0000

I grew up in Southwestern PA, but I’ve never been mistaken for it. I get mistaken for Canadian a lot, though… NO idea why. I’ve never spoken in “Pittsburghese” in terms of pronunciation, only in terms of specific odd words.

Like nebby.

I broke my dad from saying, “Where’s it AT?” something I think that SW PA folk are notorious for saying.

By: lilacspecs

lilacspecs — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:00:34 +0000

My mum is a speech therapist, so I was thoroughly bitchslapped (figuratively) if I tried using most Pittsburghese…and now in Belgium it is entirely obsolete…I’ll just get thoroughly bitchslapped if I pick up a West Flanders dialect :P.