January 07, 2005
Pittsburghese
Phil pointed out to me that Wikipedia has an entry on Pittsburgh English, also known as Pittsburgese . Apparently "yinz" is a Pittsburgh construct. The Wikipedia article pointed me to Pittsburghese.com, where there is an MP3 discussing Pittsburgh English.
Posted by Dirtae at January 7, 2005 10:17 AMA couple days ago I watched the PBS documentary, "Do You Speak American?" ( http://www.pbs.org/speak/) which ranged the gamut of American dialects, ethnolects, and sociolects (including the bizarrely idiosyncratic city of Pittsburgh). As a cadence on the theme, the host interviewed XD Huang ( http://research.microsoft.com/srg/xdh/), General Manager of .NET Speech ( http://www.microsoft.com/speech/) at M$. Pretty interesting stuff.
Posted by: Kurtiss Hare at January 8, 2005 08:25 PM
