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- Old time white working-class Pittsburgh accents as spoken by three women in their 60s, recorded Summer 1985. Unedited video capture of this unique dialect, suitable for actors and students of linguistics. From The AMERICAN TONGUES Archive.
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The Real Housewives of Pittsburgh
Tha rill hahsewives uv Pikksburg
More like golden girls Pittsburgh edition
We need a real haswife's of Pixburgh, sauthside edition!
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First "American" accent I ever heard when we moved from eastern Canada to Pittsburgh in 1963. I can spot it from a mile away to this day. Go Yinzers!
My grandma turned 90 today and has lived in Pittsburgh for 90 years. Her accent is insane
Take a video!
The black and golden girls 🖤💛
I grew up in a town in western PA not far from Pittsburgh and listening to these ladies made me feel like I was back home.
So relaxing to listen to these lovely ladies chatting on the porch.
This is what you watch when you're homesick for your mum and aunts. Genuine, no pretenses gold.
Here in Korea, been away for years; but layin here at 130 am, I feel like I'm home. #Pittsburgh
during my 10 years abroad, videos like these meant a big difference. connection is sometimes quite hard while away. hang in there, migook!
@@izme6199 This says it perfectly. Thanks so much!
My wife and I met teaching English in South Korea. She had never been to Pittsburgh before meeting me (she's from San Antonio)... and I showed her the wonders of our people while aboard with clips like these! We even had some cookie tables at our wedding :) If you ever feel lonely, need something to help with the passing of days, let us know! I'd be honored to help aht (out) a Yinzer Migook anyday!
@@nakrealtygroup3847 thanks so much! Yinz are awesome. These comments sure help making home not so far away.
@@nakrealtygroup3847 fantastic post!
The video starts with the women at the northeast corner of the intersection of Carey Way and South 20th Street, with the camera looking south while the group walks north on the east side of South 20th Street. At 0:16, after a cut, they're going west across South 20th Street, on the north side of East Carson Street, and the camera is looking roughly northeast. At 0:25, they turn north onto the west side of South 20th Street. By 0:30, the camera is looking roughly south and moving north. At 1:15, still going north on South 20th Street, they cross Wrights Way; after the cut at 1:18, they finish crossing Wrights Way. At 1:53, one woman says "Oh, this is our memorial"; it is visible at 2:00 and is at Post 6675 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, at the southwest corner of the intersection of South 20th Street and Sidney Street. At 2:15, they're going north across Sidney Street, on the west side of South 20th Street. The petunias at 3:15 are at 60 South 20th Street. The porch that they sit on is at the northwest corner of 60 South 20th Street; the porch faces Fox Way; the woman who takes the boy's wrapper at 25:31 is at what is now 1931 Fox Way, though at the time it was 58 South 20th Street.
I'm from Pgh and I hear no accent, lol. Sounds exactly like my grandma!
Dantastic most grand parents have a real good Pittsburgh accent.
Me too
Same here. And my gram was an English teacher
Same lmao
Yup, no "th" all replaced with "d". If you say dees, dem, dose and not these, them, those, you might be from my hometown :)
Seen here: A gang of studda bubbas patrolling their block.
I love coming back to this video every now and then. Sounds like a typical family reunion to me.
I think that’s what I love about it. These lovely gems 💎 could be grandma and her sisters 👯♀️♥️
Loved this! I lived in Pittsburgh till I was in my late 60’s . I moved South to be near family. It’s great to be near family. But my god I miss Pittsburgh.
Guarantee these women would put together a meal that would make the Pope blush.
Grew up on 10th st. My gram still live down on Carson. These ladies are amazing. REMINDS ME OF MY CHILDHOOD!
I just love this video. I was born in the 70's and even with or without the accent, which I don't hear since I am used to it, it reminds me of growing up with my grandparents around and sitting on the porch, or the stoop if you will. Times were so much fun then.
this is so accurate, my grandma and all of her friends talk like this
I keep expecting Shelley Winters and Laverne DeFazio to walk up! Lol. These women were fun to watch. This vid deserves many more views.
It’s crazy and really interesting to me that just decades ago so many regions in the US had much more distinctive accents. Thanks to TV and social media, everyone generally speaks or sounds the same today, besides a few areas (NYC, Boston, The south) and even in those areas the accents are dying out.
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That’s not even true. Accents are always changing and every has an accent. People who speak English in California and Chicago have never sounded more different from each other thanks to the California vowel shift and the northern cities vowel shift.
also african american vernacular english
It’s true. The CA people speak their vowels entirely different than in Chicago or here in detroit. At least the northern Californians, they say AHH-sk (ask)…Detroiters/Midwest will say ass-kk (ask). Another example is we will say bahh-kks (box)…those CA people will say BOH-kks (box)…the list goes on and on. Even Chicagoan’s and Detroiters sound different. This is also in 2023 so accents are still intact mostly
the frig yinz talking bout? ain't got a shred of sense. jagoffs. can't understand a word you're saying.
I was born in 1985 when this was made. This takes me back to my childhood.
This channel is a gem!!!
absolutely amazing video, thanks so much
Shoutout to the classic look PAT buses in the first few moments of the video.
Rip everyone here
Sounds like they’re actually downplaying their accents a bit for the camera. You hear the accent a lot thicker when you actually visit there.
late late late but I’m an amateur linguist and Pgher and this is true…we know how rough we sound…i’m 25, from the Mon Valley and have developed Quite the Pittsburghese accent, relatively speaking (it’s changing, softening and mutating in this 21st century)…we know how to “Speak Well” WELL. Pittsburghers, when speaking to each other, don’t even know how coarse we sound. And no shame. This “accent” is a gift from my ancestors, literally. But I work in hospitality, I spend all day talking in my “phone voice”. Sometimes the best thing is gettin real ol timers who have come back to town, and then I can just let it all out. The babushka mamas are still alive n well in the Burgh. they just gotta grow up
These ladies are awesome, I want to go back to the 80s and hang out with them!!
So funny, my mom just made stuffed cabbage for Christmas. Called my grandma, she had just finished makin hers 😂 pigs in a blanket!
Born in 75’. This is like time traveling. Excellent video.
My mom, and my aunts back in the day sitting on the front porch but not on the South Side, but up in Allentown. Perfect. I'm in Chicago today, but I recognize this accent more than any other. Thanks for this!
Sounds normal to me. Yunz have a good night 🖤💛🖤💛
I was born here in '68 and left in '86. I'm back visiting and my family still sounds like this. So good to be home!
The Golden Girls Of Pittsburgh
wow reminds me of my grandmother. She passed away in 1996. Even the dresses these ladies were wearing...Whoa!
Wow that video looks great for 1985
I was born in 1984, the heavy set lady with the light blue dress sitting in the middle reminds me of my grandma with her neighbors sitting on the bench under a tree chatting away with our neighbors, I love this, what a gem, in the year 2023, this something you don't see as much anymore, but I will say this, my friend(s) and I still go outside and talk, play games, grill, and associate with each other, we joke, and laugh.
We really didn’t think we had an accent back then. Other than pop we thought everyone talked like us.
They seem like long time friends shootin the 💩 Easily could be a scene from today. Sadly they have passed away because if they were 60 then, and I’m 35 born in 84 then they’d be 95 today...
this is poetry. music to my ears.
Old school Pitt accent. Not the stereotypical crap you hear with overemphasis of ‘yinz’, ‘jag off’, etc.
Reminds me of my grandparents lmao. Thanks for the video
Glad you enjoyed
Love this!
I'm impressed by the bag from CVS. I never heard of CVS before 1998.
Sounds like my grandpa who lived somewhere in pennsylvania. Born in the 30's I think and he moved to California in the 60's. He uses some slang that I can't understand, or have never heard. I remember him telling me how he fell ass over tincups. I don't see him often but it's nice to listen to him
Falling ss over tin cups means falling head over heals
I hear a bit of both my grans here! It’s nice
My mother and uncle moved from PA to MN in the early 70s. They gradually adopted the MinnesOOOtah accent. Then, any time grandma came out to visit, our kitchen sounded like these ladies while mom and grandma made perogies and halupkies, and everyone enjoyed their Genesee.
Lived in PA all my life, wife is upsrptairs making halupkies now. Labor of love, that is.
@@TheSpicyLeg Absolutely!
Beautiful! It sounds like my relatives.
i was born and raised in pittsburgh and hardly ever traveled. reading some of the comments and people being astounded is so crazy. it sounds like normal talking, i don’t hear any accent.
From Cincinnati area this sounds normal to me as well
"he went to school with my oldest brother!"
-"yeah I must be old then"..
Love it.
I agree about sausages. I live in Phoenix Az now, and I haven't found good sausages since I moved here.
I’m from central PA, and we have mix of Pitt & Philly. But I’d say more Pitt accents with Philly slang. Maybe some others can confirm. My first realization is asking a friend to turn the light “awn”. She asked me again. So I said, turn ‘awn’ the lights. Turns out, you don’t turn the lights ‘awn’, you turn them ‘ohhn’. Later ‘awn’, I learned... you ‘talk’ not ‘tahlc’. (Close to talc). You don’t ‘dohin’t’ it’s dohwn’t.
The fuck you talking about? Its 'awn'. Thats how you pronounce it.
I lived in Altoona for 5 years. The best way I can describe the local accent is that it's a mix of Pittsburgh, Philly, and Baltimore, with the very slightest dash of Southern twang mixed in there. 😂
Harrisburg, on the other hand, I would consider a solid mix of Baltimore and Philly accents.
Their clothing, body shape, gestures, and even some of their expressions remind me uncannily of Italian Nonnas! You could almost mute it and put Italian audio over it and fool everyone.
I live in PGH. I live down in the north side… and this sounds completely normal
She's adorable when she finally nails it at 33:55.
Ad soon as this video started and I saw the bags, I called BINGO!! LOL. I have a ton of family from there and recall many trips to visit my Grandmother and our huge family during the 70's and 80's. This is so familiar to me and I wouldn't be surprised if they somehow knew each other from BINGO. Is Lawrenceville near South Side? Great memories, fun, food and friendly people. Although, if you call BINGO and it isn't a true BINGO, watch ur a$$ in the parking lot. LOL
@davidargiro8306, you asked is "Lawrenceville near the South Side?". Yes. Those neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are about 11 minutes by car away from each other across the 40th street bridge.
Lawrenceville is geographically located to the northeast of downtown Pittsburgh along the southern banks of the Allegheny River. But yes, it actually is reasonably close to the South Side.
You can go across either the 31st Street or 40th Street bridges and take 28 downtown, and go across any of the bridges there and be on the South Side in 15 minutes from Lawrenceville.
Is it weird that I don’t hear much of an accent?
I think as someone not from this area, the most striking feature is that "ow" is pronounced "ah": "around" --> "arrahnd", "out" --> "aht", "down" --> "dahn"
Additionally the 'th' in the, that, being pronounced 'deh', 'dat'. Although that exists in a lot of America.
Umm...yes
There is no accent.. It's made up bs
I thought of Requiem for a Dream immediately upon opening this…wish i hadnt watched that movie
South Side is now drunk college kids
And then they graduate and buy half-million-dollar houses in Lawrenceville or East Liberty that you couldn't sell for $20,000 in 1990. 😂
loved this. (native pgh’r)
West End boy 'n prahd!
Wow those 80s cars 😍😍I think I saw a caprice
I think I saw them at The Liberty Belle at a Frankie Capri show.
This makes me crave hunky handgrenades
I guess we mize will get the keys out now lol
Yup the accent is on point😂 yin’s and all
It’s like the entry level southern.
If you put ketchup on your French fries you’re from Pittsburg…. WHAT.
Heinz ketchup.
It’s fascinating how similar people are from the same generation. My grandmother lived her whole life in Pittsburgh, died in 2000 at 88. This could have been her and her friends down to the pink mumu. They broke the mold after they made these ladies.
Fills like howm n'nat. My thanks.
I'm from Pittsburgh and this sounds normal to me. What are you guys hearing?
I'm from San Diego, CA and I wouldn't notice anything if I wasn't actively listening. Nothing "thick" here.
@@industrialpunk it’s in the “ahh” and “oww” sounds.
As MetalMk 68 said there's an ahhhh tendency on words like out and down. Also L's and T's, unless they start a word, often go unpronounced. And actual Ahh sounds like watch and wash get an "orr' instead. Thus: "We wen' dahhn tahnn ta wortch the Stee'wer game"
I have heard, incidentally, far thicker Pittsburgh accents than on these ladies.
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My Grandma lives up there on da Slopes. I live up da ways by the Fort.
my family has no relations to pennsylvania at all but my grandma still sounds like this
Love pittsburgh , homewood
My parents were Pittsburgh, born and raised. I dont hear the accent.
Love being from pa
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It’s weird that I’m understanding everything they say & don’t think they have any accent because it’s what I sound like, lol!
i don't understand these comments. As a Pgher since birth, 55 years ago I must say that I don't hear any accent?!?
"Y'all come back naahh." "That's Daahhn Saahhth."
I’m Jack Bennys age. 😂
Very well done! No attempt to exaggerate the accent. The melody of the speech is as distinctive as the sounds and grammar. Knowing what I do of the area, I suspect that these women learned English only when they started school. Very likely all of their parents spoke languages from Eastern Europe. Clearly at least two of the women knew Ukrainian or Carpatho-Rusyn.
Upda lol. I love my heritage ❤
The OG Pink Ladies!
The 'oh' sound is very sw England
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is this the staff of pierogies plus getting aht of work?
Turnin aroun
they’re just like the old south philly ladies, except the mundy’s and fridys and yinz is different
Yep, I grew up in Pittsburgh. I haven't lived there for 30 years. Thick Accent? Yiz don't know what yer talkin baht! They all sound perfectly normal to me. Ha Ha!
Born and raised outside of the city but I don't hear it either, lol.
I’m goin dahntahn to giant iggle to get a sammich for the stiller game. Yinz want anything?
Anyone know exactly where on Southside they are?..meaning streets. Cool comparing location to present day
At the beginning you can see the South Side Presbyterian Church at 20th and Sarah. They're walking North on 20th toward Carson. Hard to tell after that because the camera cuts.
@@how6732 Thanks
You can follow along in Street View.
92 South 20th Street, Pittsburgh, PA
00:01 92 S 20 st - Walking North they're on the right hand sidewalk
00:16 They cross the street at Carson now on the left hand sidewalk still walking north
0:46 84 S 20th st - "...that secret number.."
2:02 71 S 20th st - VFW Hall
3:17 67 S 20th st - petunias are gone but the fence is still there
3:39 1960 Fox Way - Veronica says "This is where we sit!"
1960 Fox Way, Pittsburgh, PA
The there they were, sadly the red carpet and chairs are not there anymore.
@@TheGodParticles You're the best!!
These ladies probably worked at the Brashear Center food pantry on 2005 Sarah street. Also associated with the Henry Kaufman house and I heard one of the women say she had a meeting the next day “at Kaufman”
Anybody know where on the southside this was filmed.
1960 Fox Way just a couple blocks down the street from the Birmingham Bridge and a few blocks north of Carson.
What are yinz talking about, we don't have no accent
Those are some sweet Stadda Bubbas. Love dem SaSide Babuska Mamas. Gona gets sim pierogies down at the church on Thursday. They live back in the Holla? Hold ur cards, we got a BINGO!
Golden girls lool
Beautiful . My Babushka Babes ! Love you Girl's.
I wish this channel would have a Chicago accent edition. But now ALL the old school working class Chicagoans are GONE! You'll have to hunt for it in the suburbs for the last survivors.
There’s still a lot of people that sound like this here lol.
Sounds like my gramma and my dad. I grew up in CA talking like them and got made fun of.
Proud to live in the Pitts?
TheWriterWalker ye I am.
I need dat number wonderful perfect!