Western Pennsylvania English

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:dialect
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Pittsburgh_English gptkb:Pittsburghese
gptkbp:distinctFrom	gptkb:General_American_English gptkb:Midland_American_English
gptkbp:feature	'jumbo' for 'bologna' 'pop' for 'soda' 'redd up' for 'clean up' 'slippy' for 'slippery'
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Western Pennsylvania English
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Scots-Irish_English German immigrants Eastern European immigrants
gptkbp:languageFamily	English
gptkbp:notableFeature	distinctive vowel shifts use of 'yinz' as second-person plural pronoun 'needs washed' construction 'the' used before street names (e.g., 'the 376') lexical items like 'nebby', 'jagoff', 'gumband' monophthongal pronunciation of 'ow' as in 'downtown'
gptkbp:region	gptkb:Pittsburgh gptkb:Allegheny_County surrounding areas of Western Pennsylvania
gptkbp:spokenIn	gptkb:Western_Pennsylvania
gptkbp:studiedBy	gptkb:Barbara_Johnstone
gptkbp:subdivision	gptkb:Erie_English gptkb:Pittsburgh_English
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:American_English
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6