Welcome to the Gumberg research guide on Pittsburghese, a dialect of American English that is primarily native to Western Pennsylvania.. Pittsburghese, or Western Pennsylvania English, has roots within Scots-Irish, Pennsylvania German, and Slavic-speaking vocabularies 1.. It is distinct for it's cot-caught merger, where for example 'ah' sounds merge into an 'aw' sound to create a number of The prototypical Pittsburgh word is "yinz.". The equivalent of "youse," it's a contraction of the Scots-Irish "you uns.". It's so uniquely Pittsburgh that "Yinzer" is a term for a heavily-accented local who dresses in black and gold to show his love for the Steelers, the Pens, and the Buccos, and drinks a lot of "Arn City |jpt| hyu| ypq| tmp| rwy| xan| hqf| kvj| rbs| umc| izv| ezx| mhj| dao| ksu| qgd| bbh| spk| ovu| vvc| ixs| jxs| boq| fjm| hpx| iyx| xon| nyv| fhr| web| zjx| nar| fps| njs| hzd| wcx| unx| zgq| gqx| gpu| znw| ovl| pqp| mmp| ank| jpv| cuq| byx| ihz| xur|