Regionalism's

[Eden]

This is fun..

What to you get when you mash English with Irish, Polish, German, Greek, and the other large immigrant populations that came right after the war? Pittsburghese from da 'Burgh obviously!

nebby (nosey)
yinz (plural of 'you')
yinzer (a blue collar worker with a heavy Pittsburgher accent)
hoagie (submarine sandwich)
redd-up (clean up)
babushka (headscarf)
n'at (and all that)
... far too many to list.

another Pittsburgher here - though I never had the "south side" accent....
a few more words that I remember as only in the Burgh
chipped ham (deli ham sliced so thin it tears aka chip chopped ham)
pop - instead of soda
and btw a hoagie is not only named differently, but *made* differently from a sub, grinder, po boy - what ever you call it in your area. Pittsburgh is probably the only place I've found one done properly. Forget Quizno's and Subway with all their "new" toasted subs.... a real hoagie is made in a pizza shop. The meat and cheese are put on the bun and both halves of it are put into a pizza oven until the cheese is melted and the bun is toasty. Then lettuce, tomato and italian dressing are put on it - the perperchinis are optional... definitely no mustard or mayo or other muck - only the stuff you'd find in a pizza shop. I was appalled, absolutely appalled the first time anyone gave me a Subway sub.... it was cold, pallid, had doughy soft bread and worst of all it had mayo on it...