I got fired from my college radio station for reading a newscast in which I pronounced the word “bear” as “bahr”.
Later my mom told me that when I was a toddler in Columbus we were the only non-Kentuckians on the block.
Still I’ll take my mildly southern drawl over my sister’s Yinzer accent any day. She used to date a kid from Brooklyn and whenever they’d discuss anything my ears would bleed.
Am from Boston but love visiting Pittsburgh.The Boston accent and slang
is wickid pissah (”what’re you, retahhhhded?”). The Kennedys have their own accent in Meh-seh-chyoo-setts with vim and vigah.
Yinz think Picksburgh Dad is funny an’ ‘at? Gumbands, chipped ham, the Stillers, jagoffs.
Heard traces of Pittsburghese in a Dennis Miller audiobook—what’s goin’
ahn?
“So dint I see you dahn the Meadows last week?”—overheard at the Permanti Bruhs in Crafton.Kielbasa an’ cheese
sammich.
We lived in Pittsburg when I was 3 and 4. For many years I had a way of saying certain words that I didn’t understand until I did a job in Pittsburg and found that everyone there talked like me.