It’s kind of funny to travel across Pennsylvania and hear the dialects change as you go. Things that are easily understood in Pittsburgh are not at all understood in Philadelphia, and there are varying levels of understanding in between.
For instance, ‘Redd up’ disappears as you go from Pittsburgh towards Philadelphia.
I didn’t know there were varying pronunciations of the ‘youse’ as well.
“Rid up” is how it’s pronounced in Altoona. It’s pretty common there.
I can’t be the only one here that has Stanley P. Kachowski and Pants an’At sketches running through his head now.
Nope, you’re not.
I’m also thinking of N’at Man, and the lovely songs ‘We’re from Da Burgh’ as well as the DVE version of ‘Camel Toe’ regarding the ‘Girl from Donora with the big labia majora.’
whistles
They have CDs of this stuff for those of yinz who ain’t aware uvda wunnerful Picksburghese comedy cul-chure.
Yinz can buy 'em onna Internet if yinz wanna. DVE donates da proceeds to charity n’at.
It’s really hard to type a thick Pittsburghese accent because so many letters would be chopped out of the words that most are unrecognizable.
I had a friend move here from Melbourne, Australia this summer. We went to Ikea. I had to translate what he said to the kid working there, and what the kid working there said to my friend.
I was reminded of how different a language we have here, n’at.
Only for the misinformed, miseducated, and misanthropic.
Soda is one variety of pop, rather flavorless, used to add fizz to liquor. Pop is how God wants us to refer to flavored soft drinks.
Unless you live in Atlanter, where it’s all Coke. :rolleyes:
It’s simple market saturation. Atlanta being the home of Coca Cola Enterprises, easily the most dominant soft drink manufacturer in the world, it’s no surprise that it and its surrounding areas have a tendency to call all sodas Coke. It’s the same phenomenon that’s responsible for Jell-O, Q-tips, and Kleenex being synonyms for gelatin, cotton swabs, and tissues.
Or was that just a swipe at the South?
I’m from the suburbs of Philadelphia and most of the people at the public school I went to had that accent. I never picked it up, for which I am incredibly thankful. Now I’m at college an hour north and everyone still has it, because 97.5% of the students are from southeastern Pennsylvania or New Jersey. Argh.
Crawling out of lurkdom because I’ve seen this on the board several times and I have to say I’ve lived in Georgia (metro Atlanta) all my life and have NEVER heard someone call all soft drinks a coke. If you want a Coke, you ask for a Coke. If you want a Sprite, you ask for a Sprite. Same goes for Pepsi, Mountain Dew, ect. “You want something to drink? I’ve got coke, sprite or water” “I’ll take a coke”.
Slithering back into lurkdom now.
Or you can just listen to Myron Kope host dem Stillers games on KDKA.
(I’m lucky-I have a trace of a Pittsburgh accent, but it’s not nearly as bad as some of the people I went to school with. I worked with this one chick who had a really thick one and a high-pitched, nasally voice. God, I hated her).
Good Og! Is old Myron still alive?!
Nah, not swiping the South. And I know why it’s all called a Coke – I just thought it a little strange the first time I was asked what kind of Coke I wanted
Besides, I’m out of all flavors of Coke, and being in the middle of “The Blizzard of '05”, I’m not likely to get any in the near future. 
Hey, all of youse are gonna regret pickin’ a fight with Philly. Hmph.
My roommate, who is from Indiana and has that surreal accent-less TV anchor ‘accent’, laughs whenever I say I want some water. Apparently, I say wooder and youse and stuff like that all the time, and it bothers her.
Also…for you PhilaDopers - isn’t it sinfully fun to talk about, say, craving TastyKakes and WaWa coffee, only to watch the puzzled looks grow?
Mmmmmmmmm…Tastykakes…
I worked and worked to lose my Phila. accent (I am not making this up) by recording Joan Crawford movies and copying her perfect Hollywood, MGM-trained enunciation. Can anyone who’s met me in person let me know if I’ve succeeded?
Den Ah meeved to Bawlmer. Remember that TV show, Farscape? When it premiered, I thought, “Farscape? Ah gots one o’ dase atesod mah winner, in case der’s a far!”
:mad:
When I’m through wit you, yer gonna feel like the Iggles did the Mummer’s strut on your spine. Yer face is gonna look like a cheese stake, only not as greasy.
That’ll teach youse not to bad mouth Fluffya.
BTW
Nobody bakes a cake as tasty as a Tastycake.
Don’t forget in Philly:
“Talia Shire” is “ADRIAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!”
Yah tawkin crazy. People who say pahp ah retahdid.