Showing posts with label Yinzers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yinzers. Show all posts

Monday, March 7, 2011

dialect vlog thingie.

This whole dialect vlog thing seems to be pretty popular, so I decided to jump in the band wagon. Please forgive how I look and the wind. If you didn't know I have a lot of trouble seeing so I make some pretty entertaining faces trying to read my computer screen.



Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught

What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped
body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry
groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?


Here is the Pittsburgh post I was talking in the vlog. Also, if you did one of these please share it with me! This is really interesting (and funny) to me! ^_^

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!

I'm not a big football fan, but I grew up in a town that when a game was on the world shut down. For 25 years I lived in Pittsburgh, PA, home of the Steelers. I can't say I like their quarterback, or the team in general very much, but I'm a Pittsburgher; it's in my nature to cheer for them.

If you have never been to Pittsburgh or don't know anything about the city, it's like a whole new world. Pittsburghers are often called "Yinzers" because we speak our very own language. I've caught myself using terms like "jag off," "read up your room," and "jagger bush" or even "Yinz guys ganna go to the mall n'at?" I can't help myself, since we've moved I've noticed my "accent" even more than ever.

I have to say I love living in Arizona, but a part of me will always be a "Yinzer." To explain more of the Pittsburgh nature I found some of my favorite Pittsburgh videos.

Growing Up in Pittsburgh


Going "Dahntahn"


My husband loves this song. It was filmed in Pittsburgh, we hear it one the radio here is Arizona.


And for all the Packers fans, just so there's no hard feelings




HERE WE GO STEELERS!!!