Dave, Pennsylvania is a commonwealth too.

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How did this thread become one that contains information about how words are pronounced? However it happened, I'm lovin it!

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When I first came to Pittsburgh, I thought that the people here sounded like they were from the South. They definitely spoke different than I did. I know that people here thought I had an accent because they would comment about it and ask me where I was from . The fact that I said "soda" instead of "pop" and "Nu Yaak" instead of "New York" {among other words} were dead give-aways that I wasn't born in the Burgh.

Now-after living here for 35 years-I can't hear my accent. And when I go home to Atlantic City, New Jersey, I can't hear the difference between how I sound and how they sound or how we sound and how people in Pittsburgh sound. What happened to that Southern accent that I used to hear? I guess I grew accustomed to it and it just sounds "regular" now.


But Pittsburgh does have its own special way of talking and its own words and phrases for things. Check out this website: http://www.sesraw.com/Birdra/pitt.htm