Pittsburghese a Source of Pride for 'Yinzers'

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"Hey, yinz guys, wanna go dahntahn and get a jumbo sammich?"

To paraphrase comedian Jeff Foxworthy, if you understand that sentence, you might be a Western Pennsylvanian.

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Pittsburghese a Source of Pride for 'Yinzers'

Examples of the dialect sometimes called "Pittsburghese" can be heard everywhere from radio skits (think WDVE's "Pants 'n Nat") to YouTube videos. And it's spoken far outside the city limits.

Brianna Robertson, 22, a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania's speech language pathology program, researche...

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