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Pittsburghese n’at… ya know?!?

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Submitted by Moon Child Step Mom on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 3:32pm

This brought a much needed smile today... thought I'd share...

So I’m sitting here at work today and a fellow Pittsburgh ex-patriot came in to interview and we started jiving in our native language of Pittsburghese… n for yinz that don’t be knowin, it’s the dialect of American English spoken by many residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and surrounding Western Pennsylvania… ya’know? It’s a mish-match of Pennsylvania German or Scots-Irish… I don’t know… but it’s distinctly weird and instantly recognizable to anyone who grew up there.

And I got reeeeeeeeeeal homesick.

And flippin Katy Perry’s “California Girls” was on the radio for about the 400th time today… so what do two displaced Yinzers do on a Wednesday afternoon…?

Write “Pittsburgh Grrrls” of course!!!
If anyone can decipher this mess I’ll buy you a coke! Wink

Pittsburgh Girls
We drink and Watch a Stillers game
Great Big Hair…
We’re goin Dahn-taan!
Black & Gold
Yinz know
We eat Primanti Sammitches…
Oooooh Oh Oooooh

Pittsburgh Girls
We’re goin to the sa’side
Are you a jag-off..?
You can’t get there from here!
Kennywood's Open…
R-r-r yinz gowin' dahn nair n’at
Oooooh Oh Oooooh

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Submitted by forestfairy on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 4:38pm

I have several friends from Pittsburgh and they definitely talk like this! hahahaha. I love it. When they got married out here on the West Coast, tons of their family and friends came out from "The Burgh" and they were all such fun people. And yes....they certainly love their Steelers!

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Submitted by epgr on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 5:02pm

we went to pittsburgh for vaca last yr, and HAD to do to the stadium tour.. (I am not a steelers fan) but it was fun there.
I live in Northeast PA the people that have grown up here talk like that too.. its odd.. and I have been trying to explain the "accent".. thanks for nailing it for me!