So, you’ve landed yourself in the ’Burgh, huh? The land of bridges and rivers and a mean, constant hankering to put fries on top of anything and everything edible?... Important Locations (phonetically spelled with the Burgh accent) Nore-syde: North Side (where the city’s football and baseball stadiums, new casino, several museums, and science center are located) Sahth-syde: South Side (where you go to drink—period) Dahn-tahn: Downtown (home to the city’s theaters and fancier restaurants) Hahs: House (the place of residence, most commonly seen in a phrase such as “Why don’ yinz guys come dahn the hahs?”) Gine Iggle: Giant Eagle (chain grocery store that will most likely be in your neighborhood) Vocabulary Yinz: You all (Pittsburgh version of y’all) Chipped-chopped: Thinly sliced deli meat (usually refers to Isley’s ham) Sweep: To vacuum (confusing, I know) Bumbershoot: Umbrella Nebby: Nosy (noun form: Neb-nose) Allegheny Whitefish: condom (usually floating in a river) Underguchies: Underwear Pop: Soda (and we will die before calling it anything else) Gumband: Rubber band (unlike most of the words on this list, most native Pittsburghers will not know what the generally accepted synonym for this word is) Jagoff: Asshole (there’s no way to beat around the bush with this one. Once a jagoff, always a jagoff…especially in rush hour) Stillers: Pittsburgh Steelers (our NFL team—to be safe, you should probably own one piece of team paraphernalia to prove you’re not a Browns fan) Bucs: Pittsburgh Pirates (our admittedly terrible MLB team…but not rooting for them is a Burgher faux paus of infinite proportions) Pittsburgh Salad: A salad with fries gloriously dumped on top of it Worsh: To wash Phrases Red Up: To clean up or tidy up a room or one’s appearance. Pumpin’ arn: To drink beer (refers to Iron City Beer which used to be based out of Pittsburgh) N’at: And that (used at the end of sentences to replace “and so on” and its counterparts) These ones/Those ones: These/those (we know it’s grammatically incorrect, but grammar isn’t really important when it comes to talking like a native) Jeet Jet?: Did you eat yet? theburghermag.wordpress/2012/03/21/yinzer-basics-pittsburghese-for-beginners/
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