Most Yinzer Neighborhood (Pittsburgh, Verona, Oakland: tech jobs, tax, suburban)

[ajl777]

lawrenceville is still pretty yinzer though

[TechieTransplant]

Originally Posted by Hopes

How can you tell a person is a yinzer if you don't talk to them? A yinzer speaks Pittsburghese. You can't tell that from merely looking at people!

Younger yinzers generally wear those ridiculous looking DG baseball caps along with males wearing both ears pierced with diamond stud earrings and multiple tatoos. Yinzer girls generally show overabundant cleavage and wear shorts year round. Yinzer adults can be typically found riding around in pickup trucks with dual exhausts.

[Little Mizz Pittsburgh]

NORTH Braddock..OMG, my co-worker lives over there by the golf course, and she is a TRUE yinzer...she still says n'at, warsh, gum band, dahn-tahn and all that....I've been invited to a few things over her house...her neighbors talk like that too and its funny to me when they talk like DOWNTOWN is far by saying "I gotta go to Pittsburgh for a court date tomorrow"...add certain parts of East Pittsburgh, certain parts of North Versailles, certain parts of Turtle Creek and certain parts of Homestead & Munhall, to this YINZER NEIGHBORHOOD thing too.

[bradjl2009]

Who cares which neighborhood is has them. All cities around the country have their own population similar to yinzers I'm sure. These threads are annoying because people in Pittsburgh act like there aren't similar groups of people like yinzers in other major cities. Of course I like the term uneducated fools better than yinzers

[robrobrob]

Originally Posted by ajl777

lawrenceville is still pretty yinzer though

So true. If you drive down Butler Street during the summer it is a given that you will see quite a few yinzers walking down the street without a shirt on.

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by robrobrob

So true. If you drive down Butler Street during the summer it is a given that you will see quite a few yinzers walking down the street without a shirt on.

I hate seeing those people do that in the summer

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by scottrpriester

Younger yinzers generally wear those ridiculous looking DG baseball caps along with males wearing both ears pierced with diamond stud earrings and multiple tatoos. Yinzer girls generally show overabundant cleavage and wear shorts year round. Yinzer adults can be typically found riding around in pickup trucks with dual exhausts.

Hey, I drive a pickup truck with dual exhaust, yet my dialect is neutral.

Anyway, it's worth mentioning that while all Yinzers speak "Pittsburghese," not everybody who speaks Pittsburghese is a Yinzer. That's like assuming that everybody with a Southern accent is a country redneck, which absolutely isn't true.

[nuwaver88]

Originally Posted by Little Mizz Pittsburgh

NORTH Braddock..OMG, my co-worker lives over there by the golf course, and she is a TRUE yinzer...she still says n'at, warsh, gum band, dahn-tahn and all that....I've been invited to a few things over her house...her neighbors talk like that too and its funny to me when they talk like DOWNTOWN is far by saying "I gotta go to Pittsburgh for a court date tomorrow"...add certain parts of East Pittsburgh, certain parts of North Versailles, certain parts of Turtle Creek and certain parts of Homestead & Munhall, to this YINZER NEIGHBORHOOD thing too.

This is also prevalent in the Allegheny Valley in places like Springdale, Cheswick, Tarentum and New Kensington. When I lived up that way for a few years, I would hear "They went to Pittsburgh last night." Instead of what you may hear in Sharpsburg. "They went to South Side last night"
I would hear things like that frequently. I found that odd because growing up in O'Hara Twp, the Allegheny Valley was just an extension of that area further up 28. It is not like it is Somerset County. It seems that many people up that way associate that area as being seperate from Pittsburgh. I don't see it that way. Just a thought.

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by nuwaver88

This is also prevalent in the Allegheny Valley in places like Springdale, Cheswick, Tarentum and New Kensington. When I lived up that way for a few years, I would hear "They went to Pittsburgh last night." Instead of what you may hear in Sharpsburg. "They went to South Side last night"
I would hear things like that frequently. I found that odd because growing up in O'Hara Twp, the Allegheny Valley was just an extension of that area further up 28. It is not like it is Somerset County. It seems that many people up that way associate that area as being seperate from Pittsburgh. I don't see it that way. Just a thought.

I work up that way and ugh people from up there are so much more ignorant and insular than people I deal with from any other part of Pittsburgh.

[fleetiebelle]

"They went to South Side last night"

This reminds me that that's another Pittsburghese thing I've recently noticed. People don't go "down to the South Side," they go "Dahn Sahside" or "Dahn my sister's" The "to the" is missing.