Pittsburghese and Beyond: 25 Words and Phrases Unique to Pittsburgh
The Language of the Steel City “Yinz goin’ dahntahn to watch dem Stillers?” is the sentence Pittsburghers use to explain Pittsburghese to outsiders, and it packs in most of what makes the dialect distinctive: a plural “you” generally traced to Scots-Irish settlers, a vowel that turns “down” into “dahn,” and an accent that makes “Steelers”…