Pittsburghese that you use....? (Liberty: living, areas, place)

[Tiger Beer]

Pittsburghese: nouns

Being a native MI person, I also examined some of the more regional ones that I might hear in MI as well (but that I've seldom heard anywhere else).

Of the Pittsburghese list these are the MI ones I wrote down: Alunamin, Battry, Blinkers, Brights, Cadillac converter, Clicker, Court, Crick, Cubbord, Foot, Graaj, Grasscutter, Hankerin, Hanky, Heighth, Hizzy, Icebox, Icening, In-dins, Innernet, Kinnergarten, Litenin Bugs, Per-scrip-shun, Perv, Pitcher, Pome, Pop, Shanty, Sheetrock, Tahl, Tahr, Worsh Rag.

I should also add that I've cut out most of those from my own speech. But when viewing the list, are there any in particular that you often use in Pittsburgh? If you are viewing this and you're originally from another state, are there some you used back in the other place?

[Hopes]

I'll play!

From that list, I use the following words:

Heinz 57 for mutt

Hoagie for submarine sandwich

Pop

Sticks (occassionally for dramatic flare. It's more fun than "rural" or "country," but I'll more often say "out in the middle of nowhere." )

I'll add one the list doesn't have: the dropping of "to be" -- I catch myself doing that sometimes.

That's it. I rarely hear people speak Pittsburghese. They say it's more often spoken in less educated areas of the city.

[Johnny C]

I think dat Pixburgheese is fake annat - geez oh man. The only guys I hear talking all stupid like 'at is my lil' brudder (and he's a jagoff).

[Little Mizz Pittsburgh]

You'll hear me using:

Yinz
Hoagie
WASHrag
Jagoff
EaSLIBERTY
Giant Iggle
Stillers
Pop
PICKSburgh

[BrianTH]

Being from Michigan, I definitely do the fast-slur, clip my hard consonants, turn t's to d's, use a hard r, turn every vowel I can into "eh", and so on. In terms of lexicon, I had "pop" beat out of me in favor of "soda" by a stint on the East Coast (I also lost "melk" for milk and "wuff" for wolf, but I will cling to "fi-yerr" for fire until I die). I haven't adopted much of the Pittsburghese-specific lexicon (although I have come to think there is a certain sense to not using "to be", and I also like the idea of "slippy"). And I still say I-376 instead of "the Parkway [East, West, whatever]".

[ctoocheck]

Don't forget "sweeper"!

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by BrianTH

In terms of lexicon, I had "pop" beat out of me in favor of "soda" by a stint on the East Coast (I also lost "melk" for milk and "wuff" for wolf, but I will cling to "fi-yerr" for fire until I die).

I'll never give up pop! The word "pop" has too many great memories associated with it during my time living on the East Coast. When I moved to the East Coast, my saying "pop" is how I got boyfriends. Guys would hear me say "pop" and they would instantly strike up a conversation with me because they knew I was from out of town. It was just an excuse for them to strike up a conversation with a pretty girl, but maybe they wouldn't have dared if they didn't have the "pop" opening.

[Aqua Teen Carl]

I've actually tried to limit all use of Pittsburghese (outside of mocking it for fun). I had to take it out of my vocabulary because I know no one will take you seriously in an interview if you sound like a Yinzer.

[greg42]

Pop, hoagie and sticks are far more than just Pittsburghese. I think there should be a distinction between those which are regional words that happen to be used here and true Pittsburghese like slippy.

[Katarina Witt]

I used to drop "to be" until my ex corrected/made fun of me for doing that. Part of the reason he is the ex.

My friend from Illinois says "slippy".