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- Three young women with strong Pittsburgh accents chat in a backyard in Braddock Hills in 1985. Raw footage from the award-winning film AMERICAN TONGUES.
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As someone who moved to Pittsburgh within the past decade, the local accent is unfortunately a rarity. It’s sad to see the loss of regional diversity.
This is true in NYC (my original home town) and Boston. Nowadays, you may find more of the old accents [NYC had many back in the day] in the suburbs and outlying areas.
@@merccadoosis8847 it's even the same in Scotland.. The doric accent is starting to fade out due to the local schools etc encouraging pupils to talk more with an English style accent.. Fucking joke tbh.
The TV blank west coast American has done more damage then anything. If you have an accent you work to get rid of it.....because you don't want to sound stupid.
@Mason Mount Really? Because I hear plenty of cockney back in London.
Breed diversity out of existence
This takes place on the deck at the western end of the house at 856 Delaware Avenue, Braddock, Pennsylvania. The deck has since acquired a roof.
Recommended videos are honestly the best
When I lived in NC, I had a girlfriend from Ellwood City, and also worked for a guy from Butler (both about 20-30min north of Pburgh) and they both omitted the “to be” … example: “the floor needs swept” or “the dogs need walked”. I’ve noticed that is a speech pattern of this particular region
And still very common in both speech and written communications.
In Ohio too.
I moved to Pittsburgh from NYC 15 months ago, and I can tell you the Pittsburgh accent is going strong, even among younger people. If you hang around blue collar areas or workplaces, you hear it a lot more than at, say, the hospitals or universities.
so cool. this is distinctly how middle aged yinzers sound now in 2020s its wild to hear it in 1985.
Maybe I'm wrong but It sounds like a hybrid between Boston and the Deep South accents, mixed.
You are pretty much spot on. It is basically a Northeast/Appalachian accent.
I was going to say cross of Philly and Midwest accents.
Boston? I was going to say Midwestern and Deep Southern accents.
@@bigdc202never philly 😅
I cant tell you how much I'm enjoying your ...accent series. they turn into these short character studies and i find myself wanting to know more about the people and the culture. I think you really HAVE something here with serious potential...if you run with it.
I have been binging this accent series for the last 2 hours 💀
Started with that northern Boston Italian dude!
@@dustbunnys I'm just an old chunk of coal from the 80s, but yeah...The algo's been on FIRE this month, EH?
That Boston italian vid popped up...And then it was
international championship PROFESSIONAL TAG! (with France vs the US, believe it or not. And we lost. To France. Playing tag)
I was also recommended a channel called lost in the pond. A channel that does nothing but compare the similarities and differences between us and uk culture.
Been finding anything good out there in the tubes?
This is amazing. Its sad were losing our regional accents.
Bar none my favorite American dialect. Utterly fascinating.
This is like the clearest video I’ve ever seen of 1985/the 80s...I thought it was more recent years before looking at the description. But I automatically knew it was the 80s by her perfect 80s perm lol.
This is 80s? Wow
Accent is immaculate but it's the patio chairs for me. Every yinzer household had them, both kids.
My aunt still has some and they still screech when you open them. Haha.
You’re going to need that chair to hold your parking spot when you go out!
All my friends are local and im born and raised Pittsburgh. Everyone i talk to sounds like this 😂 doesnt sound like an accent to me
I needa move there fuck Cincinnati lol even tho I'll always love my city but it's time
That’s an accent lol
7:56 "Then he hurry ups and turns it." Adverb fused with verb and conjugated as if the whole thing were one.
I love my pittsburgh accent and hearing these women speak it remind me why. It's so lyrical sounding. ❤
I moved from Pittsburgh to Virginia in 1982. I went back to visit in 1985 and couldn't believe how strong the Pittsburgh accent was. I never heard it when I lived there though. I met a girl at Ocean City MD as a 16 year old in 1981 that was just like that girl in the white tank top. I thought she was soo cute! She was from Bethel Park.
what a wonderful channel and project this is...
We are losing parts of this speech as of 2024 however, every Pittsburgher, Mon Valley, Allegheny Valley, Ohio Valley GIRL (especially) still talks in this magical lyrical way. Words still slippin off our tongues in Pgh. Still have a beautiful distinctual language
“My boy-friend doesn’t like ya ga’aht too much” 🤣
😂
Ah this is so splendid.
This is literally a few streets over from where i am now. We are in Swissvale on the line to Braddock hills. Honestly- the accent was much thicker in the suburbs back then. They seem self conscious until around 14 min then the accent is stronger like what it was in high school. These girls are likely 60 years old now?
What’s up with the closeups. I’ve never watched a video where I wanted to zoom out versus in 😂
I’m from a small town in NwPa where a ton of Pittsburgh people come to stay in the summer I can say with very good confidence that most Pittsburghers sound like this, also some people from my hometown have picked up on a lot of the slang from Pittsburgh although by proximity we’re closer to Erie, Pa. For reference Erie is about an hour further north of my hometown and Pitt is around an hour and a half to two hours south of us.
Grove City area?
@@CThom85 about 30-45 minutes north, more towards Erie
I'm from Sw PA about 45 minutes from Pittsburgh and me and my mother got called out for having an accent in Edinboro haha
@@mitchelloughman8382 oh yeah lol it doesn't surprise me😅
This accent is pretty rare in Pittsburgh now, but as someone who grew up in Ohio about an hour away, I can confirm that the accent is still very much alive in pockets around there. If you wanna hear this accent, go to Wheeling or Morgantown. It's way less strong these days though. For example, I always point out to my family how the way they drag out the O sound in "no" and "go" (like at 3:25) is funny but they never notice they say it differently.
Thats kind of similar to the philadelphia/baltimore accents too
My cousin and her husband have some SERIOUS Pittsburgh accents. My other cousins as well. Came from my dead uncle and grandfather. But my mother only has a few hold outs. Like gumband and yins.
Yepper! I grew up in Lisbon, Ohio. And we "taaaawk alot like 'emguyz over dare en da Burgh!" 🙌😅😅😅😅🤷🏻♀️
And NONE of us can say our "L's". 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
I live in the city and I can confirm that the dialect still exists.
Sounds like a cross between a Philly accent and Chicago accent.
That makes sense geographically, since Pittsburgh is in the middle.
Sounds like a Brit trying a southern accent.
Girl in the white almost sounds Australian 😂
yeah I've always thought this accent sounds Southern but Pittsburgh is nowhere near the south
Pittsburgh is actually near the South. Tenesee, Virginia, (West Virginia and Kentucky. . .sort of, not really :p), North Carolina. . . those are all Southern States.
@@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhimPittsburgh is well over a 6 hour drive to Tennessee , 8 hour drive to North Carolina, five hours to Virginia. . Geography is not your subject .😢😢
if you want to hear this live, go to Kelly Os in the strip lol
I grew up in Chicago, but my folks moved here from Lawrenceville a couple years before I was born. Looking back, I always got teased about how I pronounced certain words. As a kid it didn't occur to me that my parents still had that strong Pittsburgh accent (especially my mom). Looking back, I obviously pronounced words the way my parents did. At least they made an effort not to use the term "y'uns," after moving here. I really would have caught hell for that!
I grew up about 70 miles north of Pittsburgh proper, this is my accent mostly, and I was 20 years old in ‘85.
I watch these videos and wonder what happened to the people and how many are still living.
I was a bartender at Mirage nightclub in town, haha, very cool to hear this 🐱
Beautiful ladies! 😊
every person from pittsburgh in the next 12 months: “welp, time to move back now i guess”
Why?
@@sharpeningtheaxe because we’re realizing it’s way better than anywhere else!
maybe its just me… but im calling it! others feel the same🤌🤌
Trust me... this accent is alive and well
The only people I’ve really met with a strong Pittsburgh accent are older people in their 60’s+. I’m young and have a bit of a yinzer accent, but that’s as strong as it really gets.
@mitchelllundgren4169 I'm born and raised here and any true local still has it. The ones with the white yinzer parents 😂
Love Pittsburgh, Homewood
Aw, I started school at Pitt in 88 - I could’ve gone to school with these girls!
“We wan’ go up Erie for Labor day!” LOL
Perfection 💪💪💪
Braddock Hills ?? Please. Cross Brinton Road and live the the high life with the folks in Forest Hills
What happened to the Boston north end guy? The video went viral and we all wanna know. Please answer us
Classified?
He's in the witness protection program...
Abdallah Aberouch 😂 what
Some guy in another comment thread pasted this link
www.mattconti.com/Boston/NorthEnd/Feasts/2017-08-St-Agrippinas-Feast/i-jfWdc4m/A
It's from a North End feast so considering how much this guy looks like him I think it's safe to assume that it's him. I don't know who the broad is though
@@johndamalulikali Yeah that's him. Phil Carangelo. Some bozos started a rumor about him passing away from heroin overdose
How can i get this accent
In the 60s Pittsburgh was a monster of i city but many of us left and continue to leave and work in the sunbelt Leaving a mess behind Tragic
What year was this made ?
Late 70's mid 80's.
Nah, you need to go to the Hood if you want that PURE Steel City accent. Until you've heard the term "Ignernt" or "Warsh" you ain't heard the real deal 😎
you missed the perfect op to say the real “steel”
ignernt!!!! that like the word in mck, pa!!! lmao we be sayin “still” too. my family is from christy park, moved to WO, but i did preschool in dravosburg and have a STRONG. drvburg accent. “steel” and “still” are interchangeable, “melk”, “pellow”… these are all real “burg” (dravosburg) iterations. gd bless
That accent is like a mix of Northern and Southern type of dialect.
Go Bucs!! ❤️⚾🇺🇸
This accent sounds very elegant. Reminds me of Downtown Abbey
Downton Abbey??? Hahaha
That’s Pittsburgh for you 😂
Pittsburgh accent is like having a split personality between a west coast Canadian and a drunk Bostonian.
The Pittsburgh accent was more of a cross between a southern accent, like North Carolina, and a North-Eastern, Big City, Philadelphia, New York accent. It's not unusual. it's all about location.
Is that the kid from the Sandlot?
These girls are probably grandmothers now.
who's moms is these
No possible way this is a new vid, right?? Bc I haven’t seen women who dress/ look like this since ‘94.. at the LATEST..
It’s from 1985
interesting
idk wtf im listening for..
I don’t hear any accent.
What accent?
Accents from the east and south are either horrible or hilarious lol
1985 gold diggers lol
All in her grill bro jeez lol
That isn't a real thick Pittsburgh Accent.
To me Pittsburgh accent sounds Like a Florida accent not a Easten state. I was born raised and still live in Boston, everybody knows we have the best accent in the country.
clay tammaro dude, I’m from S Florida, born and raised. No one I know there sounds like these chicks.. there is normally either accents from your area (snowbirds) or there is a clean accent, and then the usual southern draw that is native to Florida too.
But we do not say “dun tun” or up air, down air”...
Lmao I’m from Florida, born and raised in Central Florida, I know how Southern and Northern Floridians talk and these girls sound nothing like Floridians. If anything they sound similar to Maryland accents.
@@micai.j8920 I agree, I'm from maryland but lived in West palm beach for 6 years and I can tell you, These chicks sound similar if not identical to Bawlmerese dialect than anything in florida. People in PG/Mocounty and DC (Mostly the black natives) Have a very twangy accent with mid atlantic influences.
I disagree
By the way Florida is an Eastern state. Look at a map
Those aren’t thick Pgh accents at all. Find some old people 😆
younger women are much cuter today, except for the high waisted mom-pants they brought back from the 80s 🤢
The worst version of the English language...