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To: squarebarb

“Yinzer” is a local colloquial term used to describe a native Pittsburgher. The same way people from the U.P of Michigan call themselves Yoopers.

The origin is the second-person plural pronoun “yinz”, which is Western PA’s answer to “y’all”.

Example: “Are you all going to the South Side?” in the local dialect is “Yinz goin’ dahn Sahhs Side n’at?”


18 posted on 08/24/2016 12:14:22 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Interesting.


23 posted on 08/24/2016 12:18:42 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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