@@brasstacksboxing409 Well to be fair, Balto and Chi-town ARE the two cities we are most often compared to. And I think I know why. Pittsburgh is geographically in a weird spot. Technically, it's considered "Northeast" BUT We Border the South (Maryland and West Virginia) BUT "Culturally" we are "Midwest" (Don't let EITHER city lie to you, but Pittsburgh and Cleveland are more alike than different). Pittsburgh city planners plan BIG EVENTS to emulate New York. (But BACKWARDS, IE on New Year's our time ball goes UP.) But of the BIG THREE CITIES in the US (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles) Pittsburgh closest resembles Chicago. New York is SO LARGE that it is spread across multiple counties. L.A. (Like Philadelphia) is SO challenged by NYC that it has to count the WHOLE COUNTY as the City. Pittsburgh (Like Chicago) is confident enough to stand alone FROM its county and be its OWN thing. (Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, PA and Chicago in Cook County, IL.) Baltimore is like Pittsburgh and Chicago in as much as the city and the county are separate things, although they share the name "Baltimore". BTW I don't CARE what "people" say, Chicago is the second largest city after NYC. If you count the WHOLE county, You ARE cheating. If Pittsburgh did that, we'd be the SAME size as Philadelphia, but law in Pennsylvania allows ONLY Philadelphia to be the largest city. (Not making THAT UP) ALSO Pittsburgh and Chicago share that great word: "Jagoff".
@@jamesslick4790The county/city of Philadelphia was consolidated for government reasons. LA (city) is larger than Chicago on its own. It has 3.9 million people. If you count LA county, the population is 9.9 million
@@Healthgang52 Philly county and county are counted as one not for "government" reasons, but "political" reasons. To ensure Philadelphia remained the largest city in PA. Pittsburgh was growing so fast in the late 1800s and early 1900s that there was a legitimate concern that little ol Pittsburgh MIGHT overtake Philadelphia as the largest city in PA by population, Pittsburgh grew 3x from 1850-1890. that the state passed laws ENSURING that Allegheny County and Pittsburgh could not become one municipality. Philly was thus ARTIFICALLY protected. As to LA (City) being more populated than Chicago (city), that might be true as of now (people leaving Chitown..) But counting whole counites that are NOT actually part of the actual municipality is still cheating. LA is STILL half the size of NYC (in REAL population).
Native Pittsburgher here - the accent IS more common in older generations. I met an elderly woman once, and I couldn't even pay attention to what she was saying because her accent was so thick. (Yes, people who sound like that DO exist. :P )
I worked at a department store in Orlando for years (side note: Orlandoans don’t have a distinct/strong accent bc population is so transient/not local) - and we got a lot of people from all over the world. This LOUD family was in the store once and I kept asking coworkers where they were from as I couldn’t understand what they were saying. About 15 minutes in, I realized: United States! They were Americans. Speaking American English but with such a HEAVY accent and being so loud I couldn’t tell at first. I can’t remember but I think they ended up being from Kentucky 🤔
I was born and raised in Michigan, but my parents were born and raised in Pittsburgh... all my life people asked me where I’m from, up until recently it dawned on me that I have a pittsburghese accent... lol
I remember in the army living in the barracks telling my roommates that we gotta read up before SGT Cook comes up they just looked at me like I was crazy LMFAO
This is my entire paternal family. I grew up "in the maahtains" (Seven Springs) so I don't sound quite like that. But I died when he sang "Harry's Service."
Been here 21 years as of August of this year, I understand the language here but personally I grew up in New England so proper annunciation of words will always stay with me lol. But I do enjoy listening to hard core Pittsburgh people😊
These seem to be people from outside of Pittsburgh who are trying to imitate what we sound like. They did a poor job of it, too. wtf is ground ham? Mt. Warshington?
well sure if you're getting it from Isaly's, but they sell it everywhere now. I wouldn't call it chip chopped ham if you bought it from Giant Eagle and it's not Isaly's brand, and no one at all calls it ground ham
My favorite memory of Pittsburgh, was going to the bar on a Steelers game day. Picture a bar full of men who sounded just like an exaggerated version of Dan Marino. That's a Pittsburgh accent!
Tunnel phobia is what I've been told that and the light change from bright day light is suddenly turn your headlights on, kinda dark. I stay around 60 until someone is slower than me and I'm forced to slow down lol
I'm from Picksburgh, and the great majority of these people are doing perfect PGH accents. The ground ham thing was a clinker though. Chipped ham, or chip-chopped ham, yes. Never ground. No one said they were going to redd up the room, no one mentioned tossel caps. Sad.
When I was 4 and a half me and my brother got an actual bat and ball kit from 3 rivers, and my brother and I broke my mom's big screen TV playing ball in the house. My mom was pissed!!! 🤣.
I'm 60. I do agree with some other commenters that the accent and Pittsburghese is fading a bit from back when I was a kid. Something that affects accents and phraseology is listening to other people from other regions on the television. Now add to that the internet. This is a reason why accents/phraseology can change subtly without reference to education or relocation.
The only guy on the DVE morning show, Bill Crawford, is originally from Pittsburgh. All the others are outsiders. Randy Bauman is from Erie Val Porter is from Franklin Mike Prisuta is from Philly
The vernacular wasnt bad but people from the burgh dont have that twang in their accents. There is definitely pittsburgh vocab I use that I didnt realize was pretty local... Like jagoff, jaggerbush, buggie, pap, redd up is a big one and I didnt realize it was local until I asked people at work in NY to redd up and they had no clue what I was saying, hoagie, hit the bricks, chipped ham, pronouncing ow's like ah's but no southern twang.
I'm from Texas, but my girlfriend is from Pittsburgh and I'm going to visit her in a few months. The people in this video talking sounded to me the way that Boomhaeur from King of the Hill sounds to people outside of Texas.
TLDR: Ive lived in downtown pittsburgh my whole life and very few guys ive met still talk like this. Old dudes in Primanti Bros and some old timey restaurant owners talk like this, but most people’s accents are pretty dialed back at this point
I moved to Indiana two years ago but I was born and raised in Pittsburgh.. I bartender and am asked everyday where I'm from... Never realized how different I sounded until moving here... I'm always asking for a husband for my hair.. How yinz doing.... Dijew eat yet... Up air.. Bring your food aut.. I love it though
Hello! I have been going to The Burgh since I was a toddler, I am now almost 30 now. I am from St. Catharines, ON, Canada. My dad is a Pittsburgh Pirates BIG fan!!! Recently, I have been trying to learn the Pittsburgh accent through UA-cam videos, this video has been very helpful! This curiosity stems from the comedy tv program "Kroll Show" with their segment "Pawnsylvania" I am sure that you have heard of it. So if you have any hints for learning the Pittsburghese accent, it would be greatly appreciated!!! I am not an actor of anything like that, just someone with nothing better to do!!! I will be practicing off your video! Thanks! :)
@@elihoneybee I TOTALLY agree with the chipped chopped ham, but actually THERE DID use to be ground ham...it was a sandwich spread with mayo, I THINK ISALY’S sold it but it's been so many years I'm not sure. It was amazing though, that I DO remember! 😊
It’s very difficult to teach it, because there’s also an attitude that goes with the accent. It’s aggressive, but only in a certain way. Very difficult to explain. It’s also in the inflection and modulation of the voice, not just pronunciation of the words. My family have a blast talking in Pittsburghese. It’s hilarious.
Yo, just so whoever made this video knows: The Hooters in Station Square wouldn't have been open when Jaromir Jagr had his 21st birthday. #pixburghPrahd
There are parts of West Virginia and eastern Ohio (e.g., Morgantown, Steubenville) that sound very similar to a Pittsburgh, especially with the use of "yinz".
I'm from out in Clummis an when I hear Altoonan or Pittsburghese iss like herring citified Appalachian Scots-Irish but slurry with an East Coast kinda lean. I dig it, it's unique.
The guy who's talking about his grandma down the street sounds the most like true yinz I'm from California but I worked in a pizza and sub shop with two brothers from Pittsburgh Yeah and they never say warsh but my sister in laws fiancée from b more does say that
It's like as if a bunch of Polish and Germans moved into an original British colony! I'd actually consider it a dialect of the "Midwest" accents of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Chicago. What is special about is the Old English residual you can hear in some of the pronunciations.
It's...it's like Nyew Yawk and some form of southernish drawl had an unholy baby with Minnewegian, and then you dipped the whole thing in....ALIEN I don't know. Some things I can see how they're related to other accents, and others...Pittsburghese is apparently just its own thing. Wow.
Not so sure you have the credentials to argue with a native on this. With names like Garca and Morales we can all safely assume you're not a local and didn't grow up on this dialect.
And if you want to get specific, what gave away their non local sound is the fact they say "Dan" for down instead of "dahn". It's Dahntahn not Dantan. They sound more like Eastern Kentucky than actual Pittsburgh. At least get the monophthong right
Part of the reason why you here an "Irishy" twang to it is because the Scots - Irish or Ulster - Scots settled in Pittsburgh before trekking further south into Appalachia and the Southwest. It's really more of a Scottish accent to be precise.
Sakurya these accents are more ranging from Cincinnati accents or even Eastern Kentucky accents. they are not consistent. that said the Pittsburgh accent is heavily Scottish influenced. scotch Irish
Omg I understand everything bye ever come here go to the go the permanty’s in south side and get that cole slaw and corned beef samich any I love on streets run flooding atm
Youngstown/Boardman boy here. I unnerstood whatchas sayin’! I don’t say, “Yinz”, won’t call Islay’s chipped chopped ham “Picksburgh Ham”, hate the Stillers, Iron City beer sucks, but… will enjoy me a Primanti sammich!!! Yes, driving through Fort Pitt tunnel at night into Pittsburgh is a great sight…. 😢
My parents went to Ambridge area HS but I grew up in Seattle. Every few years during the summer, we'd fly in to visit a buncha people my dad called "rel-uh-divz" I was always like: "The hell are these people saying?!"🤨🤔 An nah? I'll occasionally hear myself say shit like Arahnd=Around Dahntahn=Downtown Grahnd=Ground Hoss/Hass=House Gum band=Rubber band Winda=Window Pellah=Pillow Pillow is a stupid word anyway. It's spelled pill and pronounced pell. It's weird. I've spent a combined total of 10 or 12 weeks of my life in Blitzburgh but, due to my parents having thick Pittsburghese accents, I kinda developed a half ass imitation by accident RIP mom Born 1956 Liver failure 2020 Stihlers for life
Sorry for your loss. I am from Beaver Falls,also in Beaver County, like Ambridge. I have been away a long time, but when I go home for a visit, it picks right back up. I have also been picked on in the Navy and here in Indiana about how I pronounce certain words like towel and pool.
Iz burn aht Mickey. Iz gots famly frum Braddick ahn Brushdun ahn Wilksbur. Bin a'whal sinz I bin up, but Ahl jus acks...win wuz las time yinz wokt da Mirikul Mahl?
That sums it up. but I never said Jagger bush we just called it a Jagger. you don't ever walk on a lawn barefoot because Jaggers look like dandelions but hurt when you step on them. I lived in saside when I was 4 and 5 years old. yins was always said and never you guys. When I moved to Florida I used to laugh when y'all was said. My neighbor didn't like me calling Lakeland Lake Land its Lakelind. he he some things just don't mix. Also I called a rubber band a gum band and that lady didn't know what I was talking about. Jumbo was always on my samiches when I was going to schol, in Florida its skoool . we cant play ball anymore because the ball went down the sore. (sewer) also sewer and sore were synonyms. I guess I miss Pittsburgh and all the lingo.
I have lived in Pittsburgh my whole life..I can't tell you not EVERYONE talks this way. I'm from the south hills and I defiantly know people who speak this way however, not everyone.
We don't say "warsh." That's a Baltimore thing and I don't know why they threw that one in there. I only know a few people that say "red up" instead of clean up. The n'at (and that) is more of a downtown Pittsburgh thing. We don't say it as much just a little bit north of Pittsburgh. Also they're putting a country twang into their voice that most Pittsburghers don't really have. You can tell the parts in the video where they're over stressing certain words, which should be the first clue that it's not how we really sound. When they're talking fluidly, that's more like how we really sound. Otherwise it's pretty accurate.
jbiafra08 "N'at" isn't more of a downtown thing, it's all over the Pittsburgh area and "warsh" is definitely (along with "wush") a part of Pittsburghese. I agree with you though that they are putting too much of a southern twang on much of what they're saying in the video.
RandomPlayIist Yeah, we do still say n'at, but not nearly as much as you hear it in town. I still say we don't say warsh. I'll accept your "wush" though.
People don't think we sound like this because the accent is way more prominent in older generations. But this video seems pretty accurate to me.
It sounds like a southern accent mixed with an Australian accent and a Canadian accent
It sounds like Chicago and baltimore mixed.
@@brasstacksboxing409 Well to be fair, Balto and Chi-town ARE the two cities we are most often compared to. And I think I know why. Pittsburgh is geographically in a weird spot. Technically, it's considered "Northeast" BUT We Border the South (Maryland and West Virginia) BUT "Culturally" we are "Midwest" (Don't let EITHER city lie to you, but Pittsburgh and Cleveland are more alike than different). Pittsburgh city planners plan BIG EVENTS to emulate New York. (But BACKWARDS, IE on New Year's our time ball goes UP.) But of the BIG THREE CITIES in the US (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles) Pittsburgh closest resembles Chicago. New York is SO LARGE that it is spread across multiple counties. L.A. (Like Philadelphia) is SO challenged by NYC that it has to count the WHOLE COUNTY as the City. Pittsburgh (Like Chicago) is confident enough to stand alone FROM its county and be its OWN thing. (Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, PA and Chicago in Cook County, IL.) Baltimore is like Pittsburgh and Chicago in as much as the city and the county are separate things, although they share the name "Baltimore". BTW I don't CARE what "people" say, Chicago is the second largest city after NYC. If you count the WHOLE county, You ARE cheating. If Pittsburgh did that, we'd be the SAME size as Philadelphia, but law in Pennsylvania allows ONLY Philadelphia to be the largest city. (Not making THAT UP) ALSO Pittsburgh and Chicago share that great word: "Jagoff".
TBF, Pittsburgh is not far from Canada. Pennsylvania borders Ontario.
@@jamesslick4790The county/city of Philadelphia was consolidated for government reasons. LA (city) is larger than Chicago on its own. It has 3.9 million people. If you count LA county, the population is 9.9 million
@@Healthgang52 Philly county and county are counted as one not for "government" reasons, but "political" reasons. To ensure Philadelphia remained the largest city in PA. Pittsburgh was growing so fast in the late 1800s and early 1900s that there was a legitimate concern that little ol Pittsburgh MIGHT overtake Philadelphia as the largest city in PA by population, Pittsburgh grew 3x from 1850-1890. that the state passed laws ENSURING that Allegheny County and Pittsburgh could not become one municipality. Philly was thus ARTIFICALLY protected. As to LA (City) being more populated than Chicago (city), that might be true as of now (people leaving Chitown..) But counting whole counites that are NOT actually part of the actual municipality is still cheating. LA is STILL half the size of NYC (in REAL population).
"How come you guys drive so slow in the tunnel?"
Squirrel Hill tunnel
Every goddamn time
And too fast everywhere else. You’ll get flattened in a Giant Eagle lot.
Me and my siblings would try to hold our breath all the way through the tunnel. But sometimes people drive soooo slow through it
The traffic there is so fuckin insane, like dude. The faster you drive the less likely you are to get crushed by a rock, fuckin move it lmao
Fort Pitt etc
Native Pittsburgher here - the accent IS more common in older generations. I met an elderly woman once, and I couldn't even pay attention to what she was saying because her accent was so thick. (Yes, people who sound like that DO exist. :P )
I worked at a department store in Orlando for years (side note: Orlandoans don’t have a distinct/strong accent bc population is so transient/not local) - and we got a lot of people from all over the world. This LOUD family was in the store once and I kept asking coworkers where they were from as I couldn’t understand what they were saying. About 15 minutes in, I realized: United States! They were Americans. Speaking American English but with such a HEAVY accent and being so loud I couldn’t tell at first. I can’t remember but I think they ended up being from Kentucky 🤔
I was born and raised in Michigan, but my parents were born and raised in Pittsburgh... all my life people asked me where I’m from, up until recently it dawned on me that I have a pittsburghese accent... lol
Not from the Burgh but an hour north in Sharon . We still sound a little like that . We also have a mix of Y town from Ohio in us .
I remember in the army living in the barracks telling my roommates that we gotta read up before SGT Cook comes up they just looked at me like I was crazy LMFAO
it's like a Boston and Wisconsin accent mixed
Yes it has a little canadian-e and Minnesota in it.
It sounds very much like the accent of Saint Paul...I grew up there
Well they are geographically in the middle.
This is my entire paternal family. I grew up "in the maahtains" (Seven Springs) so I don't sound quite like that. But I died when he sang "Harry's Service."
The girls definitely sound the most realistic but not everyone talks like that here
shaun thompson no she sounds Southern
Ive never heard anyone talk like that here😂
People haven't spoke like this the Mills closed
I actually do have an accent but non of my friends do so its really awkward lol 😂
yeah i have a very bland accent like i say yinz and all the other general stuff but honestly no one talks like that
Been here 21 years as of August of this year, I understand the language here but personally I grew up in New England so proper annunciation of words will always stay with me lol. But I do enjoy listening to hard core Pittsburgh people😊
90%+ of my kinfolk.
And of course in classic yinz fashion everybody from Pittsburgh claiming this isn’t how they sound
I feel attacked. 😂🤣
Nah, dey shore don't sahnd like dat!
cuz it aint
@@eXipes Maybe NOT NOW, but the older generations most certainly do.
@@DovesSweetSonnet dude you’re talking to someone who literally learned to speak from the people you’re talking about. You’re wrong.
These seem to be people from outside of Pittsburgh who are trying to imitate what we sound like. They did a poor job of it, too. wtf is ground ham? Mt. Warshington?
"LOL I'll just say yinz a lot am I doin it right?! xD"
no, that just makes you a n00b.
Chip chop ham
jmcclelland85 nobody calls it chip chopped ham, it's just chipped ham.
well sure if you're getting it from Isaly's, but they sell it everywhere now. I wouldn't call it chip chopped ham if you bought it from Giant Eagle and it's not Isaly's brand, and no one at all calls it ground ham
My favorite memory of Pittsburgh, was going to the bar on a Steelers game day. Picture a bar full of men who sounded just like an exaggerated version of Dan Marino. That's a Pittsburgh accent!
I was a radio and TV minor in college. First semester was spent in speech therapy to get rid of my Pittsburghese.
Uhh, there is a very, very important question asked here that no one answered.
WHY do yins drive so effing slow in the tunnel?
They’re a bunch of jagoffs who can’t drive n at
Tunnel phobia is what I've been told that and the light change from bright day light is suddenly turn your headlights on, kinda dark. I stay around 60 until someone is slower than me and I'm forced to slow down lol
@allycat3612 in Pittsburgh it's chipped ham. Not ground ham!! Where on earth do you live!
ya i never heard anyone call it ground ham
thank you
I'm from Picksburgh, and the great majority of these people are doing perfect PGH accents. The ground ham thing was a clinker though. Chipped ham, or chip-chopped ham, yes. Never ground.
No one said they were going to redd up the room, no one mentioned tossel caps. Sad.
"redd up your room company's comin over" was mentioned
Comp knee
Should have asked real P'burghers to do this. Exactly - too forced.
NO it is NOT "forced"....the older generations most certainly do sound like this.
Yup, yinz come up ‘is way ta Jwohnstahn, dey still twalk like ‘is too.
You have to be old school pittsburgher to talk like this lol but it’s accurate for me
yinz guys see that jagoff over dere???
lolololol
I Love The Pittsburgh Accent Am Born And Raised A Pittsburghger. In Pittsburgh We Call Soda. Pop. Worsh Instead Of Wash.
3:05
Um....what the fuck is ground ham? It's chipped ham ya jagoff.
mashedmoff this is how you can tell they're not yinzers
lol at people saying this is an exaggeration. Yinz just don't hang arahnd wit da right people ;)
Copydot I do agree but not everyone sounds like that in Pittsburgh, lol wish I had a really thick accent!!
i live round Pittsburgh and its pretty thick but there is yinzers da talk like that
Right? This is pretty damned accurate haha. Everyone saying otherwise just sounds like this ;)
What in the gosh dang frick frack patty whack are ya sayin’
Who in Pittsburgh has ever said Mt. Warshington? Lol people do say worsh instead of wash but not in pronouncing mt Washington
When I was 4 and a half me and my brother got an actual bat and ball kit from 3 rivers, and my brother and I broke my mom's big screen TV playing ball in the house. My mom was pissed!!! 🤣.
Took me 21 years to realize ‘jagger bush’ wasn’t a nation wide thing lmao
I love how this just sounds normal to me. Having no idea which words are supposed to sound weird. Proud yinzzer here
nooooo
She called her self a yinzzer 😭
@taintedsexpill5329 what's your point?
"I haffa go to da baffroom" did remind me of those cruisin' days around Da Burgh.
I suppose gimbels wearhouse in crafton is where i bought my 1st stereo in 84.
im from Pittsburghand this video was great. nostalgia
I'm 60. I do agree with some other commenters that the accent and Pittsburghese is fading a bit from back when I was a kid. Something that affects accents and phraseology is listening to other people from other regions on the television. Now add to that the internet. This is a reason why accents/phraseology can change subtly without reference to education or relocation.
The only guy on the DVE morning show, Bill Crawford, is originally from Pittsburgh. All the others are outsiders.
Randy Bauman is from Erie
Val Porter is from Franklin
Mike Prisuta is from Philly
The vernacular wasnt bad but people from the burgh dont have that twang in their accents. There is definitely pittsburgh vocab I use that I didnt realize was pretty local... Like jagoff, jaggerbush, buggie, pap, redd up is a big one and I didnt realize it was local until I asked people at work in NY to redd up and they had no clue what I was saying, hoagie, hit the bricks, chipped ham, pronouncing ow's like ah's but no southern twang.
Being from Pittsburgh, this is pretty accurate.
Lynn Shank nah lived here for forever never heard anythig that bad😂
EddieTheGhettie you weren’t around in the 90s then lmao
Ikr I grew up my whole life there and I’m like i thought this was a normal speaking
I lived in Pittsburgh my whole life and I definitely have an accent, but these people sound more southern
@@gigglebits616 southern? Wtf are you talking about
I told my son who is born and raised in Texas (I moved there when I was 16) to “Getindahaus” and he said he did not understand what I was saying.
Good one get in the house I picked up on it fast. I must still have Pittsburgh in me. 73
@@ronb6182 😁 So true. It never leaves. 61 here.
@@roundrock63 66 and months . 73
I live in scenery hill, PA which is about 45 mins from Pittaburgh but I still have a normal strong Pittsburgh accent
Adventuring_With_Braden I live about 20 minutes away from Pittsburgh and I have an accent to
I'm from Texas, but my girlfriend is from Pittsburgh and I'm going to visit her in a few months.
The people in this video talking sounded to me the way that Boomhaeur from King of the Hill sounds to people outside of Texas.
TLDR: Ive lived in downtown pittsburgh my whole life and very few guys ive met still talk like this.
Old dudes in Primanti Bros and some old timey restaurant owners talk like this, but most people’s accents are pretty dialed back at this point
Very true, accents get muddied over time.
Stillers, yinz, and haas are my favorite ones!
I moved to Indiana two years ago but I was born and raised in Pittsburgh.. I bartender and am asked everyday where I'm from... Never realized how different I sounded until moving here... I'm always asking for a husband for my hair.. How yinz doing.... Dijew eat yet... Up air.. Bring your food aut.. I love it though
Don't quit your day job.
Hello! I have been going to The Burgh since I was a toddler, I am now almost 30 now. I am from St. Catharines, ON, Canada. My dad is a Pittsburgh Pirates BIG fan!!! Recently, I have been trying to learn the Pittsburgh accent through UA-cam videos, this video has been very helpful! This curiosity stems from the comedy tv program "Kroll Show" with their segment "Pawnsylvania" I am sure that you have heard of it. So if you have any hints for learning the Pittsburghese accent, it would be greatly appreciated!!! I am not an actor of anything like that, just someone with nothing better to do!!! I will be practicing off your video! Thanks! :)
Hey for the record, yinzers don’t say ground ham. It’s chipped chopped ham, and most everyone loves it.
@@elihoneybee I TOTALLY agree with the chipped chopped ham, but actually THERE DID use to be ground ham...it was a sandwich spread with mayo, I THINK ISALY’S sold it but it's been so many years I'm not sure. It was amazing though, that I DO remember! 😊
It’s very difficult to teach it, because there’s also an attitude that goes with the accent. It’s aggressive, but only in a certain way. Very difficult to explain. It’s also in the inflection and modulation of the voice, not just pronunciation of the words. My family have a blast talking in Pittsburghese. It’s hilarious.
Yo, just so whoever made this video knows:
The Hooters in Station Square wouldn't have been open when Jaromir Jagr had his 21st birthday.
#pixburghPrahd
My mother says "worsh," but she grew up in Illinois.
I'm not even from Pittsburgh and I say some of these 😂
There are parts of West Virginia and eastern Ohio (e.g., Morgantown, Steubenville) that sound very similar to a Pittsburgh, especially with the use of "yinz".
I'm from out in Clummis an when I hear Altoonan or Pittsburghese iss like herring citified Appalachian Scots-Irish but slurry with an East Coast kinda lean. I dig it, it's unique.
The dirty O! Farewell to all the memories. ❤
Jagoffs my fav lol
That r in Mt. Warshington. 😂 my family is from Indiana and a lot of people still put the R in. 😮
The guy who's talking about his grandma down the street sounds the most like true yinz
I'm from California but I worked in a pizza and sub shop with two brothers from Pittsburgh
Yeah and they never say warsh but my sister in laws fiancée from b more does say that
Well done !
It's like as if a bunch of Polish and Germans moved into an original British colony! I'd actually consider it a dialect of the "Midwest" accents of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Chicago. What is special about is the Old English residual you can hear in some of the pronunciations.
Haha! Who else cam here because of the great American whatever book?
“Meals on wheels never brings any holumpki” 😂🇺🇦❤️🇺🇸
Sounds like upstate ny accent too!
"Meals on wheels never bring no halupki" 😂😂😂😂
WE DO NOT SOUND LIKE THIS!! 😭😭😭😭
Yes, Yinz do.
It's...it's like Nyew Yawk and some form of southernish drawl had an unholy baby with Minnewegian, and then you dipped the whole thing in....ALIEN I don't know. Some things I can see how they're related to other accents, and others...Pittsburghese is apparently just its own thing. Wow.
LOL it IS...."it's own thing" 😂
I'm from Fayette county and that all made sense to me. In'at how people are sposta talk?
when she said I HAFF TO GO TO THE BATH-THROOM thats how we talk.
... I'm trying to pronounce it "normal" and I'm failing...
This reminds me of the random stuff they say on Bad Lip Reading :)
The one fat guy just sounds like a southerner which isn't pittsburghese. Most everyone else sounded pretty accurate.
Draufgaenger no they didn't. girl sounded Southern!
Not so sure you have the credentials to argue with a native on this. With names like Garca and Morales we can all safely assume you're not a local and didn't grow up on this dialect.
Idk about the other guy but are you aware that 1)people can move 2)people don't always use their actual names online? Wow what a weak comeback
And if you want to get specific, what gave away their non local sound is the fact they say "Dan" for down instead of "dahn". It's Dahntahn not Dantan. They sound more like Eastern Kentucky than actual Pittsburgh. At least get the monophthong right
I miss the Eat&Park breakfast buffet and Primanti's. I don't miss people talking to me like this.
And i'm proud to be a pittsburgher seein the struggle to speak like us xD
Lol, I know, I have a friend from Somerset and she can’t do the accent, it’s just natural for me now!
0:45 What's "carl parr"?
Cowher power. Steelers head coach.
S’goin on? Is my fav and Yeet yet?
What were the people at 0:23 doing?
I’m from Pittsburgh I speak exactly like this I say worter instead of water I say zip instead of sip and something I say yins
I just heard about Pittsburgh having an accent. Is it just me or do they sound Irish? Can anyone explain the accent? Curious Canadian here.
Part of the reason why you here an "Irishy" twang to it is because the Scots - Irish or Ulster - Scots settled in Pittsburgh before trekking further south into Appalachia and the Southwest. It's really more of a Scottish accent to be precise.
no
Sakurya these accents are more ranging from Cincinnati accents or even Eastern Kentucky accents. they are not consistent.
that said the Pittsburgh accent is heavily Scottish influenced. scotch Irish
Were-he-to is Pennsyvania?
Omg I understand everything bye ever come here go to the go the permanty’s in south side and get that cole slaw and corned beef samich any I love on streets run flooding atm
Why would you go down da south side to get jumbo? You get that at Jy-ent Iggle.
Didn’t even mention the hood of Pittsburgh
Nice try actors, but you missed the mark on the Pittsburgh accent.
Youngstown/Boardman boy here. I unnerstood whatchas sayin’!
I don’t say, “Yinz”, won’t call Islay’s chipped chopped ham “Picksburgh Ham”, hate the Stillers, Iron City beer sucks, but… will enjoy me a Primanti sammich!!!
Yes, driving through Fort Pitt tunnel at night into Pittsburgh is a great sight…. 😢
Red up ur room and make sure u run the sweeper
Yinz have anymore IC lights
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, they sound legit to me. 🤷♀️
Why do people drive so slow in the tunnel?
Like for the jagger bush edit. They're ALL jagger bushes. Lolol
My parents went to Ambridge area HS but I grew up in Seattle. Every few years during the summer, we'd fly in to visit a buncha people my dad called "rel-uh-divz"
I was always like: "The hell are these people saying?!"🤨🤔
An nah?
I'll occasionally hear myself say shit like
Arahnd=Around
Dahntahn=Downtown
Grahnd=Ground
Hoss/Hass=House
Gum band=Rubber band
Winda=Window
Pellah=Pillow
Pillow is a stupid word anyway. It's spelled pill and pronounced pell.
It's weird. I've spent a combined total of 10 or 12 weeks of my life in Blitzburgh but, due to my parents having thick Pittsburghese accents, I kinda developed a half ass imitation by accident
RIP mom
Born 1956
Liver failure 2020
Stihlers for life
Sorry for your loss. I am from Beaver Falls,also in Beaver County, like Ambridge. I have been away a long time, but when I go home for a visit, it picks right back up. I have also been picked on in the Navy and here in Indiana about how I pronounce certain words like towel and pool.
Ahl dem nice restaurants out in Robinson , Red Lobster n" the Olive Garden .... wuss!
SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YER UNCLE.... WHERE HES BEIN LAID AT?
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Yinz git daht aht Davit Wize?
Iz burn aht Mickey. Iz gots famly frum Braddick ahn Brushdun ahn Wilksbur. Bin a'whal sinz I bin up, but Ahl jus acks...win wuz las time yinz wokt da Mirikul Mahl?
They didn't say ain't we use that in Pittsburgh a lot
Cousin named tommy? Accurate
omg it's like half boston half fargo
That sums it up. but I never said Jagger bush we just called it a Jagger. you don't ever walk on a lawn barefoot because Jaggers look like dandelions but hurt when you step on them. I lived in saside when I was 4 and 5 years old. yins was always said and never you guys. When I moved to Florida I used to laugh when y'all was said. My neighbor didn't like me calling Lakeland Lake Land its Lakelind. he he some things just don't mix. Also I called a rubber band a gum band and that lady didn't know what I was talking about. Jumbo was always on my samiches when I was going to schol, in Florida its skoool . we cant play ball anymore because the ball went down the sore. (sewer) also sewer and sore were synonyms. I guess I miss Pittsburgh and all the lingo.
I have a pittsburgh/oakland hybrid accent shit confuses the hell outta people😂
Kinda sounds like the accent of St. Paul, MN
I'm from St. Paul. No one from there sounds like this.
@@bobhague2130 a little...Hence, kinda
Scone on?
I have lived in Pittsburgh my whole life..I can't tell you not EVERYONE talks this way. I'm from the south hills and I defiantly know people who speak this way however, not everyone.
Yinz wanna go to Jine Eagle
It sounds like a great lakes accent mixed with Southern Appalachia
Yeah... Uh, no. Not very accurate from a native Pburgher. Sorry.
Orphan Izzy true lol
Yeah... uh, yeah it's accurate
i gotta go now
Im from Pittsburgh and people DO talk like this but not everyone
This sounds like a Chicago, Boston or Southern accent depending on who is talking.
Do people in Pittsburgh actually sound like this? WTF? Never heard this one before. Lovely nonethless.
We don't say "warsh." That's a Baltimore thing and I don't know why they threw that one in there. I only know a few people that say "red up" instead of clean up. The n'at (and that) is more of a downtown Pittsburgh thing. We don't say it as much just a little bit north of Pittsburgh. Also they're putting a country twang into their voice that most Pittsburghers don't really have. You can tell the parts in the video where they're over stressing certain words, which should be the first clue that it's not how we really sound. When they're talking fluidly, that's more like how we really sound. Otherwise it's pretty accurate.
Ah, okay. Interesting.
jbiafra08 "N'at" isn't more of a downtown thing, it's all over the Pittsburgh area and "warsh" is definitely (along with "wush") a part of Pittsburghese. I agree with you though that they are putting too much of a southern twang on much of what they're saying in the video.
RandomPlayIist Yeah, we do still say n'at, but not nearly as much as you hear it in town. I still say we don't say warsh. I'll accept your "wush" though.
yes these people at the very least sound Baltimorean. or Cincinnati. or Philly. or Kentucky. it isn't consistent and it's not Pittsburgh
None of these people are from pittsburgh to me