Catsix, for a perfect example of an Altoona accent, tune to the radio station 100.1 and listen to Danice Bell, one of the hosts. The now-defunct morning show, called something like “Tommy and Danice in the morning,” was serious overkill on the Altoona accent - those two just reinforced each other’s accents.
My husband is well-educated, but one of the things that appealed to me from the beginning was that he dropped all pretense when referring to carbonated beverages. They are deliberately called “co dranks” in our family.
Goodness God! I graduated with Danice! Is she in Pittsburgh now?
What I wouldn’t give to hear a little Philadelphia accent again, after all dese Cajuns.
Yea, but I’d say he is getting up there quickly - he has really detoriated in the last couple of years. Mid-seventies by now atleast, so he has his reasons.
Oh, and younz will usually get you blank looks here in NC. Maybe it is how exotic it is in this part of the globe, but I really do like the Pittsburgh/Philly accent. To each his own, I suppose.
My SIL was from Pittsburgh, or somewhere near, and my nephew has lived there all his life. Somehow my brother still sounds like the Midwest, even after fifty years*, but his son, oh my! There’s no doubt about where he comes from. I actually like to listen to him, but what drives me crazy after a while is that rising inflection at the end of every sentence. They’re not all questions, people.
Scared myself there, I did. I did a quick mental calculation to figure out how long he’s been out there – thirty? no, forty? no, oh my gosh, fifty! Aaaagh!!! Nothing that close to within my lifetime should be that long.
It’s still too cold to plan, but I’m confident GettysDope II will happen this summer. Last year, all PA dialects were represented, as well as some other out of staters who talked funny. 
brightens up
Talk of GettysDope makes this damn snow much easier to take…
That’s more of a hardcore flat-a Buffalo accent than Pittsburghese.
Og, this thread has made me homesick! 
I grew up in Altoona, spent my late teens and part of my early twenties in Pittsburgh and then moved to Buffalo for a few years. For the past several years, I’ve lived in Durham, North Carolina.
I bet I sound pretty strange by now.
(What I really miss is Sheetz, though I’m told there will be one down here soon.)
Gosh, your friend must have an extremely broad accent. I’ve never heard of that happening before with an Australian visiting the USA.
“My brudder is a jagoff and he don’t think dad knows nuttin about him and Ronnie smokin pot in Dad’s Bonneville”
“Triplets, what’s up wit dat?!?”
Hehehe. It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to those.
And today is Myron’s 76th birthday, which hopefully will be a good Omen for the Steelers/Pats game today.
I can do the extremely thick Pittsburghese accent, but I usually only do it to illustrate that such a thing exists to out of towners, or when I am traveling to other lands.
I suppose technically so, but he’s going downhill so fast that he has extreme difficulty getting in on-topic commentary for the game, and often doesn’t know what the Refs are signaling, even if it’s the end of the quarter.
He also does lots of ‘double yoy’ and ‘triple yoy’ these days.
I’ll give it a shot if I can get that station in my car.
Considering that both of them are staples on the WDVE Pittsburgh morning show with Jim and Randy (formerly with Scott and Jim), they most definitely are Pittsburghese. The Pants N’at sketches feature things like ‘gohn shawpin wit yer grammuder’ and their tagline is ‘Ah git mah disabiwity chek n POW, it’s dahn tah Pants N’at.’
Definite Pittsburghese.
To be fair, he’s not really in the ‘USA’. He’s in Pittsburgh, where English is a second language. His last name has an E in it, and the kid at Ikea had to ask him to spell his last name. My friend is going ‘E’ and the kid is saying ‘A’, and finally I just said ‘E, dude. It’s an E’, or we never would’ve gotten out of there.
And still so hard to get the accent across. It’d have to come out like:
"My brudder is a jagawff an he don’ think dad knohws nuttinabaht himn Rawnee smokin pawht in Dahd’s Bawnuhvill.’
n’at.
So, yinzun goew da stay-jum?
Happy birthday Myron! Go Stillrz!
Pittsburgh’s go-win ta da Sooper Bowl!
Didn’t he just get out of the hospital?
I think so, but Myron is Pittsburgh’s own Dick Clark. The man will be annoucing Stillrz games from his grave!
? My dad grew up in South Philly, and he always referred to my sister and me as “yiz.” Half of the other stuff you mentioned I don’t remember…
and the defining Philly thing, I’m told, is “atty-tude” for attitude. My dad did that one, too. (“I don’t like your atty-tude!!”)
We are from NE Philly, and we don’t say “wooder”…we say “waw-ter” (sort of). But a kawfy and Tastykake from the Wawa sounds pretty good!
My favorite to date: my home since 1972, “Ariz EAUU na.” Hm.
Maybe I’ll get my sweater by then. 
Yes. You don’t really have any sort of accent.
I-G-G-L-E-S! Iggles!
We just got a Sheetz here in Greensboro; maybe they will migrate east soon enough.
Sheetz, though, is not what I miss the most - whenever you ask for hoagies, gnoccis, or pepperoni rolls down here you mostly get a good long contemplation. Ah well!
My bad. I was thinking of the*Pat 'N Patti’s Scharacters in that sketch speak with a Buffalonian flat-a that is so harsh, it would break glass.
My first name, Dan, would be pronounced as “DeeHEANN” in Buffalo. It sounds truly awful, and is deserving of all the ridicule Torontonians dish out when they encounter it.