Keystone State Thread

I agree wit Murph.

 

When I was younger, I thought that I was too smart for such things. I despised all the Pittsburghese terms. My dad's mother especially used them all: gumband, jumbo, nebby, slippy, buggy, sweeper, pop, chipped ham, jeet. And my dad used jagoff like you would say hello. Now that I am older, I can accept these terms as part of what made these people who they are. No shame left for me. The only terms I use though are slippy, chipped ham and -on occasion - jagoff.

 

I recognize all but jeet, a little help with that one please.

 

Did ya eat

 

I don’t know anyone who uses that.

 

Vos comous does comasta

 

Kind of like for East Liberty, a section of Pittsburgh, we used to just say "Sliberty." We can be kind of lazy when we speak. I think that comes from the Scotch-Irish influence that was prevalent early in this area. If you ever try to listen to a real Scots man speak, they just slur every thing together.

 

Late FIL always talked piglatten and well since he now gone, I have to idea what it means .....

 

I’ll fade into the background.

 

Ah, my relatives used a version more like dgeet, think lodge, dodge. Thanks.

 

Just embrace the situation. You will be ok.

 

Y'all are forgetting the most commonly used Pittsburgheze slang word which is "n'at". Most Pittsburghers (not just the older people) say this word/term after every sentence, in between other words like they have turrets or something. I've been in Pittsburgh since 1991 and it still kinda annoys me. LMFAO !!!

 

My mother uses that one. LOL. Jim Krenn used to have a comedy sketch on 'DVE years ago called Pants N'at.

 

Philadelphia has sure changed in the Year I have not been down there.

Looks to have changed for the better.

I was there back in the seventies it was a friend of mine that got the Big Rock named after him when He skied into it a broke legs.

That was the old days before Jackson even had a McDonalds .

I keep planning to go back but it just never happens.

 

When I hear 'wit' it tends to be from folks who might also say "throw the cow over the fence some hay."

 

That's a common philly slang that I know of. Have a couple friends from north philly and they all use that.

 

Only in Pittsburgh.

 

Almost all of my coworkers use that term.... I hate it. It is a slang, made up word but I'm sure it will make it's way into the next new dictionary (if it hasn't already).

 

Most of my coworkers are 40 and under...so it's definitely a millennial term