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Originally Posted by CFrance
Yunz, jagoff, gumband, 'n-at, warsh, Arn City Beer. Dahntahn. J'eatyet? Slippy, 'SLiberty. Stillers. All in a crazy, unique accent only found in the metropolitan area, that studies have shown transcends all educational and financial levels.
Pittsburgh
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Originally Posted by Fredman
You forgot "red up" which means clean up the house. Incidentally a gumband is a rubber band.
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In addition, Pittsburghers pronouce out as "aht"
Pennsylvania is pronouced "Penns-ah-vania"
Jaggers are thorns, any type of shrubbery with thorns are "jagger-bushes".
Clodhoppers are work boots or any type of large heavy shoe.
Creek is prounounced "crick".
House coat, pronounced "haus coat" is a type of terry cloth or light cotton coverup worn around the house by grandma to do her "haus work".
A "jag-off" is a jerk.
Northside is prounouced "Nor-side, Southside is pronouced sah-side"
Telling someone "Kennywood's open" means the zipper on their pants is down.
"Nebby" means nosy. "Yinz are bein' nebby"
"Jumbo" is bologna.
There are quite a few more. Pittsburghers tend to drop letters, slur their words together and not annunciate. The dialect is called "Pittsburghese" and there is a site called pittsburghese dot com that has audio files to listen to the dialect.