Star Katherine LaNasa might not be a born-and-bred Yinzer, but she gets much of that unique accent right. It's not easy.

Dahntahn: The Pittsburgh way to say downtown, referring to the area around Point State Park (aka The Point), where the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – After the disappointing news was released from Big 7 Travel that Pittsburghese was rated one of the least sexy accents in the country, Celina Pompeani decided to dig deeper to find ...

Some cities have accents; Pittsburgh has its own language. The dialect is being studied by a group of linguists at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Locals at the city's famous Original Hot ...

Whether it’s a judicious use of the word “yinz” or the flattening of vowels in words like “out” or “down,” Pitts­burghers have a distinctive way of speaking — but for us, it’s totally natural. “That’s ...

You go dahntahn, you worsh your clothes, you watch the Pittsburgh Stillers, winter sidewalks are slippy and redd up means to ...

They call it Pittsburghese, and some have said it's the ugliest accent in America. Here are some phrases and pronunciations to help you talk like you're from the Burgh, or at least understand those ...

Words like "yinz" and "n'at" appear throughout Pittsburgh, but the origin of the city's dialect is pretty unique compared to other regions. The famous, or perhaps infamous, Pittsburgh accent is as ...

PITTSBURGH—What's in a word? Plenty, if you're from Pittsburgh, Pa., where phrases like "Yinz going dahntahn to watch dem Stillers?" are symbols of local identity. A new book by Carnegie Mellon ...

Star Katherine LaNasa might not be a born-and-bred Yinzer, but she gets much of that unique accent right. It's not easy. It’s the verbal tic that everyone and their attending physician has been using ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yinz might not know it yet, but folks from western Pennsylvania use a regional form of speech that's often called Pittsburghese, ...