Translating Pittsburghese
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Sounds Like:
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It Means:
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Arn
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Iron, as in Iron City
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Ats
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That's
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Big Bird
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Giant Eagle (local grocery store)
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Jynt Igl
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Giant Eagle (local grocery store)
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Chipped ham
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Ham (or any other meat for that matter)
sliced paper-thin or shaved
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Crick
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Creek
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Cubburd
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Closet, cabinet (aka cupboard)
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Da Burg
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Pittsburgh
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Dahntahn
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Downtown
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Gumbands
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Rubber bands
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Gutchies
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Underwear (don't ask—we don't know)
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Hoagie
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Submarine sandwich
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Jag off
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A person who's a jerk
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Jumbo
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Bologna
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Kennywood's Open!
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Your fly is unzipped
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Klondike
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Ice cream treat that started here, at Isley's
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Mon
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Monongahela River
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N'at
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And that
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Nebby
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Overly curious, nosey
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Pop
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Soda
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Redd up
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Light cleaning
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Sahside
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South Side
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Sammitches
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Sandwiches
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Sliberty
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East Liberty (a neighborhood in Pittsburgh)
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Slippy
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Slippery
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Spicket
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Water tap or faucet
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Stillers
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Steelers
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Stoop
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Porch or front steps
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Strip
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A local area with shops, dance clubs, and restaurant known as The Strip District
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Worsh
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Wash
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Yock
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Youghiogheny River
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Yinz
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All of you
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Carnegie Mellon's own Dr. Barbara Johnstone, Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics in the English Dept, is a resident expert on speaking Pittsburghese. Try the advanced class!
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