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To: DallasBiff

I once drove through North Versailles. If you say the name like the palace or the treaty, you will call yourself an outsider.


8 posted on 10/02/2024 12:10:42 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Yes I know it is North “versales”, in the correct Picksburghese.


10 posted on 10/02/2024 12:16:15 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: Fiji Hill

How is it pronounced then? We have a city in Nebraska spelled Beatrice, but its pronounced bee-at-tris


14 posted on 10/02/2024 12:28:54 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Fiji Hill

Yep, it’s “Ver-sales” not “Ver-sigh. Pittsburghere will laugh at you if you say “Ver-sigh.”


21 posted on 10/02/2024 12:49:30 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!)
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To: Fiji Hill
If you say the name like the palace or the treaty, you will call yourself an outsider.

Is it Vur-SAILS? Or is it VUR-sails? Or maybe VUR-SAILS?

28 posted on 10/02/2024 2:00:09 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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