Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 01, 2024

All I know about Pittsburgh is that there are pirates there.

I hope they have sandwiches with fries on them in prison.

Everywhere has its own language, or at least, there’ll be bits of it specific to the location. Where I grew up, for instance, when something was noticeably dirty, “it needs warshed.”

would that make him a Pittsburgh Stealer?

Unfair bias, anybody? Dan aka…

Too much information, Mr. Barfly.

I suppose Pittsburgh was on the book tour a while back.

In Tennessee it’s pronounced “You’uns” or, in the Tennessee mountains, “Yunz”.

The correct phrase is "Yinz are nuts, n’at.

Where I’m from you kept the spare tyre in the boot, and tried not to hit the kerb when making a turn!

The Immaculate Apprehension.

I’m glad they caught the jagoff and dey’re takin’ him dahntahn.

Do they call water “wooter” there? Or is that Philadelphia?

I knew a girl from “Picksberg” who talked about a Picksberg neighborhood called “E Slibberty”. I was amazed that any place in America had a name that began with just an “E”. I finally found out that “E Slibberty” was “East Liberty”.

Yinz want to go with me to the Giant Iggle dahntahn and then go the bar and grab an Arn City and watch the Stillers n’at.

The Immaculate Detention

Your hair is all “greezy,” too! Now go “red up” your bedrooms!!

I wonder if other states have their own language.

Well, ya’ know, assuming things like that aren’t too good a deal, then, dontcha’ know.

Well lets hope he bought a round before getting arrested.

Spot on!

Aw, come on! That’s totally racial profiling!

“If you have to explain the joke….”

North Carolina was once considered the most diverse state for its dialects before the mass migrations from other parts of the states. Accents and dialect could change dramatically within 15 miles and even less in the mountains. My elder brother had such a good ear he could recognize most changes.

LOL He musta ben dahntahn askin d’jeet yet?

Hoagie or sub? Also, it’s cold out so don’t forget a hanky.

At least he left his Troy Polamalu wig at home…

I always wondered what happened to that kid that gave Mean Joe Greene his Coke.

A perfect example of a shibboleth.

Actually it was ‘You’unz’ up thru the 80s/90s until I moved away. I still say it. ‘Yinz’ sounds foreign to me. I hate it!

Probably was hiding in some jagger bushes!

Not your underwear. Just your nose pee-pee.

I read once that the Pittsburgh dialect was the most annoying dialect in the US.

Hoagy, , grinder, sub, or hero?

Immaculate perception

https://en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/Yinzer

Soda=pop=coke=tonic

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Apparently, in PA people use the short A and say " I bathed the baby" instead of using the long A. (pad vs paid) When I heard a person here keep saying it, I thought she was just odd. Then I asked my sister, who lives central PA about it and she said it’s common back there.

Pittsburghers are often called “yinzers.” Steph used “yinz” correctly too. It’s most often used to start a sentence.

Has anyone here drunk from a bubbler? Or gone out to buy some bakery?

I’m from Washington state, but my mom used to live in Arkansas, and so I inherited a mild Southern accent from her and from my grandma and grandpa.

yeppers, I thought Pastis was a yinzer.

Am I trying too hard to find the Franco Harris underwear and Immaculate Reception joke in there?

Shouldn’t that be “Pittsburghers?”

This isn’t why I believe in standard pronunciations and grammatical constructions, but it does help.

It`s actually “ya`ll”.

Here in western NY, we have some Pittsburghese. “Crick” instead of “creek”, “spikket” instead of spicot. But rubber bands are not “gumbands” and “submarine sandwiches” are not “hoagies”. We do have the tendency to totally purge the word “an” from the English language. An elevator is “a nelevator”, an apple is “a napple”, an ice cube is “a nice cube”. I had friends who giggled like little girls when we would go to breakfast and I would order “a negg”.

My sis, who lives in the “Pixburg” burbs, has a coffee mug covered with “yinzer” words & phrases such as “dahntahn,” “chicken on the hill,” “redd up,” “it needs cleaned,” “nebby,” etc.

it’s yuens. "where yuens going?’

It is a good thing the cops were nebby

Husband is from Monaca. He has managed to rid himself of a lot of it, although I never minded it. But after a couple beers it sneaks out. One thing that has always stayed is the dropping of “to be” as in, “the beermeister needs opened.”

“Helloi?” “Krazy Kat” spoke “Yat”, a New Orleans dialect similar to a New York Working Class dialect.

My wife grew up in Pittsburgh. We don’t clean, we “rid up the house”, because the “carpet needs vacuumed”, so “get out of my road”.

I posted this one on a Steelers fan page and the Lords of Facebook decreed that this is “hate speech” and they deleted it.

And their pittsburg paints are great too.

In Chicago if we’re going to the large grocery store chain, we take da car outta da gratch to go over by da Jewels for a coupla two-tree things.

Those cops know a “Pirate” when they see one

Try Boston,which has a different word for everything in the dictionary

Now, if they were looking for someone from Kentucky and I said “y’all…”

English really could use a standard second person plural pronoun. I’m partial to youse.

Wow, yinz got everything except chipchop ham. One of my favorites when I was a kid.

Yes rat, Pittburghese is a real thing.

In Texas “fixin to” doesn’t mean you are going to repair something, it means you’re planning on doing something.

he shoulda been eating a dippy egg and scrapple

His head needs fixed.

Spoken like a Yankee… It’s y’all not ‘you all’

Franco Harris underwear? If I had underwear of any team, I’d have the my biggest rival teams.

you daresn’t say that

My wife’s people are all from Pennsylvania, yinz was in common usage. The first time I met the family, I made a derogatory comment about the Pittsburgh Squealers, as a lifelong Raiders fan I had no choice. It all worked out, we have been married 44 years and I still hate Pittsburgh & Franco because of the immaculate deception.

as someone from pittsburgh, i can confirm this is how we speak