Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:dialect
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| gptkbp:alsoKnownAs |
gptkb:Pittsburghese
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| gptkbp:culture |
gptkb:Pittsburgh_Steelers_fans
local T-shirts and merchandise parodies and comedy sketches |
| gptkbp:documentedIn |
gptkb:Pittsburgh_Speech_&_Society_(Carnegie_Mellon_University)
gptkb:Pittsburgh_Speech_&_Society_(book) gptkb:Pittsburghese.com |
| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Pittsburgh English
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| gptkbp:influencedBy |
gptkb:German
gptkb:Eastern_European_languages gptkb:Scots-Irish_English |
| gptkbp:languageFamily |
English
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| gptkbp:linguisticFeature |
'Stillers' (Steelers)
'aht' (out) 'chipped ham' 'cot-caught' merger 'crick' (creek) 'dahntahn' (downtown) 'dippy eggs' (over-easy eggs) 'gumband' (rubber band) 'jagoff' (annoying person) 'jumbo' (bologna) 'n'at' (and that) 'nebby' (nosy) 'pool-pull-pole' distinction 'pop' (soda) 'redd up' (to clean up) 'slippy' (slippery) 'warsh' (wash) 'yinz' (you all) 'yinzers' (Pittsburgh natives) associated with working-class identity sometimes stigmatized used as marker of local pride |
| gptkbp:mediaType |
gptkb:Pittsburgh_Dad_(web_series)
sports broadcasts local news and radio |
| gptkbp:notableFeature |
distinctive intonation patterns
use of 'yinz' as second-person plural pronoun monophthongization of /aʊ/ to [aː] (e.g., 'downtown' pronounced 'dahntahn') unique vocabulary (e.g., 'nebby', 'jagoff', 'gumband') |
| gptkbp:region |
gptkb:United_States
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| gptkbp:spokenIn |
gptkb:Pittsburgh
gptkb:Western_Pennsylvania |
| gptkbp:studiedBy |
gptkb:Barbara_Johnstone
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| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Western_Pennsylvania
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| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
5
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