np, I went to school at University of Michigan in Dearborn (deer bern), Michigan), youse guys.
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Hijack a thread? Yeah we did! Yinz are a bunch of jagoffs! (I grew up in Pittsburgh originally.)
Yinz, huh? I’d never heard of that one. You know who started this all? Spain. Yeah, they use vosotros. Vos is the olde you (today’s tu) and otros is others, so you and others, yinz guys. And English is the world’s lingua franca, whaaaat?
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Pittsburghese has whole websites devoted to it… of course not all phrases are exclusive to there but lot of them are.
http://pittsburghspeech.pitt.edu/PittsburghSpeech_PgheseOverview.html
Impressive (re: Pittsburgh-ese) and at the university level to boot. I’ve been eChating with a lady from Nova Scotia. My brain hurts. I’m going to stick to technical stuff.
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