[Vigilanteman]

Honestly speaking, this is the first time I have heard the colorful way of speaking in these parts blamed on our early Scott-Irish settlers. That demographic is common throughout all of Appalacia and they don't talk like the Yinzers in the 'burgh.

[Buckeye McFrog]

My parents gave me the greatest gift that any two parents could possibly give their child.

They did not move back to Pittsburgh until after I had learned to speak.

[thesharkboy]

When I had to lose my (northern Ohio Valley/almost Pittsburgh) accent, I just put a gum band on my wrist and snapped it every time I said “red up.” Younz can do the same.

[USS Alaska]

A friend and I once produced a tape for sale at pro shops stressing the etiquette for golf, just simple things, like fixing balls marks and if the course is wet and you are restricted to staying on the carts paths, to take three clubs with you when you walk across the fairway to your ball.

Just common sense stuff. We both tried to do the voice over, and we were both professional sales men and thought we were well spoken.

After listening to ourselves along with the video, we hired a professional announcer for the audio.

I could not believe how piss poor we sounded on a recording using first class equipment, in a studio run by professionals.

I don't know if it was the 'Burgh sound, or we both had crummy voices for audio tape, but the sound was very bad.

[Beowulf9]

I haven’t a clue as to how a Pittsburgh accent sounds but it seems to me that unless you are working in a professional manner and need to sound like everyone else it should be considered part of your identity, your heritage and you should be proud of where you come from and how you sound because of it.

[DoodleBob]

http://www.pittsburghese.com

And my personal fav....

Yinz better watch aht,
Yinz better not paht,
Yinz better not cry,
I’m tellin yinz hauscome,
Santa Claus is comin’ dahntahn.

He’s makin’ a list,
He’s checkin’ it aht,
He’s gonna find aht who’s nebby an ‘at,
Santa Claus is comin’ dahntahn.

He knows if yinz is a jagoff,
He can see inside yinz haus,
He knows if yinz been workin’ hard,
Or just sittin’ on yur caach (caach, caach, caach).

Yinz better watch aht,
Yinz better not paht,
Yinz better not cry,
I’m tellin yinz hauscome.
Santa Claus is comin’ dahntahn!…..

He sees yins on the Nor'side
In 'Sliberty and Sahside, too.
He don't want yinz to be ascared
Just do what yer asposed ta do. (Doo Doo Doo)

Yinz better watch aht,
Yinz better not paht,
Yinz better not cry,
I’m tellin yinz hauscome.
Santa Claus is comin’ dahntahn!

[Paddyboy]

I wouldn’t give up my Philly accent for anything..it keeps people away from me

[mak5]

Get aht of tahn. Don’t yinz have any respect for diversity? Redd up and head on over to Sliberty for your penance.

[petro45acp]

Understand the desire to lose the inflections in favor of a teevee speech patter, but ... one of the really enjoyable facets of traveling around the United States.

American doesn’t have the hard regional dialects found in other parts of the world (ish). The regional speech patterns though are a joy to hear. Listening to two engineers (calculus, not rail) of any discipline discuss a technical item is high entertainment. Joe Pesci, Fred Gwynne, Marisa Tomei take a doofy movie and make it enjoyable for nothing more than the interplay of the speech patterns.

Vive le differance!

KYPD

[SeekAndFind]

If you have the chance to look at Meghan Markle’s recent videos... after her marriage to Prince Harry, she’s suddenly developed a British accent in talking to the commoners.

Did she have a tutor, one wonders?

[setter]

Pittsburgh brings back terrible memories for me.

First job out of college 35 years ago I worked for a stock brokerage firm in Pittsburgh. Think Wolf of Wall Street atmosphere.

I was last in sales every week and the brokerage manager would literally scream his lungs out at me at the Monday morning meetings.
Lasted 11 months before I quit on threat of being fired.

Watched Wolf of Wall Street and it made me sick to my stomach.

[rwa265]

I did not realize there was a distinctive Pittsburgh accent. I recently travelled through Pittsburgh, going up the Duquense incline and eating lunch at Square Cafe on S. Braddock. I really did not notice anything different about the way the employees at either place talked.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

[Albion Wilde]

Yinzers at a Funeral

[caww]

Well actually it was the Scott-Irish of the Appalachia area that brought the dialect here to the states.....considering later then there were intermarriages with other groups who went into the Appalachia area with their own dialect crossing over. One could easily call it "Mountain Talk"

[caww]

Well actually it was the Scott-Irish of the Appalachia area that brought the dialect here to the states.....considering later then there were intermarriages with other groups who went into the Appalachia area with their own dialect crossing over. One could easily call it "Mountain Talk"

[gunsequalfreedom]

Yinz never going to pull that one off.

[TianaHighrider]

Oh, I love it.
I adore accents. They are fun and characteristically interesting.

[Fiji Hill]

Some Pittsburghers were once serving coffee and put up a sign, “if you can say it right, you can have some.” For a free cup, you had to pronounce it something like “co-fee.”

[JoeFromSidney]

Not just Pittsburgh. My mother's Slovak-ancestry relatives in Cleveland sounded the same way.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I was among a group of ‘Burghers that started a factory in the deep south. The language clash was a real problem. We had a guy that talked real slow - he was the only yankee the natives could understand at first.

I did figure out how to get the grocery store deli to make me some chipped ham, though.