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Tim,


You start with language lessons . . .


And then you use a foreign term like "North Side?" I'm shocked! Appalled even! Looks like you, too, need language lessons: That's "Nor-side," and of course, there's "Sou-side," too.

Dave

It's not really Gian (Giant) it's more like you can't even spell how it sounds, how about GAUWNT IGGLE. well, maybe a resident pittsburgh linguist.......
could spell it for us phonetically. Wake up souside and help us oaauut. And the Eagle part is "Iggle." Heck, even the video rental counters in the store are called that "Iggle." Am I right? We have a new and civilised GAUWNT IGGLE here, and I never paid any attenion, but the old one had an Iggle Video.
Also, you'll need a WDVE sticker.
Getting used to cars being parked it what also is a regular lane of travel on a road that is indeed two lanes... but you won't be able tell as no lines are used and as I said, sometimes the one "lane" will have cars parked in it. Pittsburgh, truly a maze.

I like the N@ stickers myself.

No, I think "gian iggle" will suffice. /dzajn Igew/ might be the closest phonetic transcription... note that Pittsburghers make final "l"s into "w"s, as in stiw miw, which you WON'T see in da burgh no more.

Also, note that every location is "dahn" from where you are. For example, I, as South Sider, would go "dahn da nor side".

I wrote a whole thesis on it if yunz wanna read it, but it's pretty boring stuff.

Christ is Baptized!

To learn the official language of Pittsburgh:
http://www.pittsburghese.com/

This seems fairly complete.

Deacon El

That's "yunz" with the proper Greman umlaut n'at!

Ung

You guys are killing me. N'at. My visiting nurse says that virtually every sentence. I just smile to myself. You're right, I really did commit a faux pas--Nor' side. We don't have a Giant Eagle in State College, but when I lived in Johnstown the video place was called Iggle video. And the steel mills. Stiw Miws is correct. There's a town near State College named Howard. Just like the name. But it is pronounced "Hard." And another town named Milesburg. That's Mawsburg. Lots of Western Pa people around State College, obviously, n'at.

Keep them coming. Then again, maybe we will scare Dr. Eric from taking a job in da burgh'! You'll enjoy it if you move there, Dr. Honestly. Now that the air is clean without the stiw miws and you can go dahn to any side of town to get an ahn city, life will be good. And you can sing songs in virtually any language you want. Especially if it's Eastern European. Of, if you go back Dr. make sure you visit the Slovak kitchen at Carnegie Mellon University. It's great.

Tim

You Pittsburghese website gives away what that is.

Maybe I'll reconsider moving.

Do they still brew Duquesne beer in Pittsburgh?

BOB

I like this one:

Monongehela Highball Glass of tap water. Do yinz wan a Monongehela Highball? (Submitted by Anonomous, Florida)

Christos Kreshchjajetsja! Vo Jordani
Christ is Baptised! In the Jordan!

Of course we forgot a few---motorsackle or motorsickle for motorcycle and the biggest one of all-the name of the town itself. For heaven's sake, it's not Pittsburgh. It's Pixburgh!

What were we thinking?

Tim

Theophan -- you ARE a recluse!

Dey ain't brewed no Duquesne bir dahn Pixburgh since like 1978 er sumpin!

Whatta tahn! Wartch aht fer da potholes na at da wedders nice, n'at.

domilsean:

When I went to university, I met a guy who had live in Mt. Oliverand had his insights into Pittsburgh beers. We used to go for the Friday specials: three quarts for $4.50. We'd drink whatever was the Friday special and I remember Duquesne beer. That was the late 1960s and early 1970s.

I moved to Philadelphia shortly after mortuary school in 1976 and didn't get back for a few years. I did lose touch. Since I've been oncall and no one wants to smell alcohol on the funeral director when they meet him, beer became one of those pleasures that didn't come around too often--about once a year on vacation. A man once told my boss that the public would trust an adulterer but they wouldn't trust someone who'd been drinking with grandma.

LOL, so that's why I've got you and the others here--to bring me up to speed on so many topics like beer. Now my son can go on about the various subtle differences in beers, but that's a topic for another day.

BOB

Ahrn, by Altoona definition, is what you have to go to the sheriff to get a permit to carry concealed. Comes from that mountainese and is short for "shootin' ahrn."

When people around here say, "I'm getting my ahrn out," don't belly up and get a glass out--get your bullet-proof vest out.

BOB

BOB,


Same word, just that Ahrn City is a proper noun, while a shooting ahrn is not!

Dave

"Aht" would be more phonetic like aaauuugggghhttt, showing the Germanic vowel pronounciation. Listen to Bill Cowher or Dan Marino talk, they hit the long gutteral vowel pronounciation perfect!

As the the CMU professor of American language and dialects states, Pittsburghese is one of the northern most Appalachian dialects,most influenced by the Scotch-Irish and German immigrants, with later influences from the East and Central-Southern Europeans(ie. cupolini, dupa, etc.).

Ung n'at