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A sign using "Dahntahn" to mean "Downtown" in Downtown Pittsburgh. Western Pennsylvania English, known more narrowly as Pittsburgh English or popularly as Pittsburghese, is a dialect of American English native primarily to the western half of Pennsylvania, centered on the city of Pittsburgh, but potentially appearing in some speakers as far north as Erie County, as far east as Harrisburg, as ...
The suffix burgh is the Scots language and Scottish English cognate of the English language borough, which has other cognates in words and place names in several Indo-European languages. Historically, this morpheme was used in place names to describe a location as being defensible, such as a hill, a fort, or a fortified settlement. [1] [note 1]
The 'Burgh Unlike many cities in America that end in burg (including the capital of the state, Harrisburg), Pittsburgh retains the h at the end of its name, making this quality recognizable as unique to the city. City of Champions [2] [3] [4] [5]
Getty Images Pittsburgh slang is a blend of regional vocabulary and a distinctive accent, with a few choice phrases in the mix. Don't go there expecting straightforward American slang ...
Pittsburgh (/ ˈ p ɪ t s b ɜːr ɡ / PITS-burg) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat.It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the 68th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census.
"Yinzer" (or "Yunzer") was historically used to identify the typical blue-collar people from the Pittsburgh region who often spoke with a heavy Pittsburghese accent. The term stems from the word yinz (or yunz), a second-person plural pronoun brought to the area by early Scottish-Irish immigrants. [1]
Our favorite candy heart sayings of the past 120 years. 1 4 3. FIRST KISS. HEY YOU. HOT STUFF. JUST DANCE. JE T’AIME. JUST ONE. LAUGH. LET’S KISS. NEW LOVE. YOU SHINE. Candy heart sayings for ...
Yinz is a derivation from the original Scots-Irish forms "Yin(s)" (meaning 'One(s)) and related contractions of you ones, yous ones and ye 'uns, a form of the second-person plural that is commonly heard in Scotland, Ulster and parts of Ireland and Northern England.