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Arianrhod	Posted: 19-Oct-2003, 11:58 AM
Lady of Starlight and Petal Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 1,230 Joined: 19-Oct-2003 Zodiac: Vine Realm: Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands	Hello From Pittsburgh PA ! Home of the Steelers ! Local sayings are aplenty due to the henoius accent! Yinz goin duntun? Are you going downtown? Jewet? Did you eat? anat.... and that.. Nice meeting you all curtsey Paula -------------------- Proud member of Clan Mac Roni , CEO of The KDC The curve is mightier than the sword ... "He's twitching, because , mah axe is embedded in his nervious system " ! LOTR

3Ravens	Posted: 19-Oct-2003, 01:47 PM
Herbmistress of Erin Group: Ireland Posts: 1,084 Joined: 11-Aug-2003 Zodiac: Rowan Realm: south coastal Virginia	Huh! I thought it was spelled ynz! Down here in Virginia we just say y'all! Did you see that NPR special on Pittsburgh A to Z? -------------------- If age is a learning experience, I should be a genius by now...

Arianrhod	Posted: 19-Oct-2003, 01:53 PM
Lady of Starlight and Petal Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 1,230 Joined: 19-Oct-2003 Zodiac: Vine Realm: Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands	I must have missed that Three Pittsburgh is an interesting small town... Born and raised here,, guess I'm staying,, Care to fill me in on the highlights of the special. Or do you think, perhaps they will run it again ? As for yinz .. it is so coloquial ..I just took artistic liscense ,, my bad Paula

McHaggis	Posted: 19-Oct-2003, 02:00 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Scotland Posts: 292 Joined: 04-Oct-2003 Zodiac: Holly Realm: Pismo Beach on theCentral California Coast	Paula: My niece went to school in PA and, being as we're both Cali born and bred, we had a great discussion about regional dialects the other night at dinner. "Yins" DID come up! I was bouncing off colloquialisms that I learned while living in the Upper Midwest.....eh? It all sounds like the soundtrack to the movie "Fargo." Aw jeeez, Margie! RON -------------------- "NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT" "...A bonnie lass I will confess, Is pleasant to the e'e, But without some better qualities She's no lass for me...." (From "O Once I Lov'd" - Robert Burns) "There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make." --J.M. BARRIE (1860-1937)

3Ravens	Posted: 19-Oct-2003, 02:03 PM
Herbmistress of Erin Group: Ireland Posts: 1,084 Joined: 11-Aug-2003 Zodiac: Rowan Realm: south coastal Virginia	Paula, They had 3 or 4 things for every letter of the alphabet, people, places, parks, restaurants, museums, neighborhoods, rivers, and yes, yns was one of the ones for Y! There were too many to remember all of them. I do remember there was a 100 mile long bike trail, tailgating at the stadium, and something about preserving a section of colonial road and some native american sites.

Arianrhod	Posted: 19-Oct-2003, 02:17 PM
Lady of Starlight and Petal Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 1,230 Joined: 19-Oct-2003 Zodiac: Vine Realm: Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands	McHaggis, you can hardly speak about Pittsburgh with out YINZ.. shame that it is .. I hear it spoken daily... After eight years of Nuns... it will won't dare creep out of me... Well, a lot of East Coast accents are ... unforgetable shall we say, Philly, where I went to college... ack, vowels like a knife thru my head.. Boston, tho I love it dearly .. has a tone all its own also ... I have been from Northern Cali to Seattle, and really did'nt notice a change in the dialect.. perhaps I was'nt listening for it .. Three, I will have to be on the look out for that program, The bike trail goes from Dawn Tawn all the way to a town called Confulence,, then hooks up to the Erie Canal trail, that goes thru DC to Baltimore... Tailgating has escalated to an art from here, it really is fun,, and folks tend to get there early , as in 3am the morning of a game. God bless them,,I think the last one may be Old Rt 51 .. Pa is just really starting to recognise all of the Native Americans that were once here, I am glad to see that Thank you both for your replies ! Paula

McHaggis	Posted: 19-Oct-2003, 06:42 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Scotland Posts: 292 Joined: 04-Oct-2003 Zodiac: Holly Realm: Pismo Beach on theCentral California Coast	Your certainly right, Paula.....there's not much in the way of accents out here on the coast, it's more vernacular than anything....of course, I hang around a bunch of surf rats so everythings "dude!" Watta bunch of Spicolli's! (That would be the surf rat from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High.") And of course there was the Valley Girl-speak nicely but easily ridiculed by Frank Zappa way back when. But for the most part we're accent free, I'm thinking.....though after spending 13 years in the Upper Midwest it took me about that long to quit saying "You betcha" and things like that after I got home. RON

3Ravens	Posted: 19-Oct-2003, 09:53 PM
Herbmistress of Erin Group: Ireland Posts: 1,084 Joined: 11-Aug-2003 Zodiac: Rowan Realm: south coastal Virginia	Paula, You were probably thinking of the C&O canal trail from DC to near Baltimore. The Erie canal goes from Buffalo down to the Hudson. I've hiked a short section of the C&O years ago. It sure is pretty this time of year!

3Ravens	Posted: 19-Oct-2003, 09:56 PM
Herbmistress of Erin Group: Ireland Posts: 1,084 Joined: 11-Aug-2003 Zodiac: Rowan Realm: south coastal Virginia	Ron, Is there really a beach in South Africa that has 15 min tubes, or is that a surfer myth?

Boudica123	Posted: 19-Oct-2003, 11:03 PM
Servant Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 26 Joined: 16-Oct-2003 Zodiac: Vine	Hey I am from Minnesota.. but I consider myself a TEXAN although my ancestors are from SLIGO ... hey to all my SLIGO PEEPS Attached Image. (Click thumbnail to expand) -------------------- "I'm great. I can't see but I'm good." "Try using both eyes." "Oh, oh yeah that's better." "Think you can stand?" "You mean I'm not?"

Arianrhod	Posted: 20-Oct-2003, 04:21 AM
Lady of Starlight and Petal Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 1,230 Joined: 19-Oct-2003 Zodiac: Vine Realm: Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands	Yeppers that was the one Three , thanks for taking the time to correct me Here ya go tosses a cookie Biked from here to DC a few falls ago .. In Service to the Dream, Paula

Elspeth	Posted: 20-Oct-2003, 08:26 AM
Celtic Guardian Group: Wales Posts: 2,216 Joined: 24-Jun-2003 Zodiac: Reed	Hey Paula! Finally another Steeler's fan! And I've had the discussion of how to spell PA-isms many a time too. Out a little farther from Three Rivers, it becomes more younse. Ever check out the Pittsburgese website? http://www.pittsburghese.com/ Elspeth -------------------- Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. - Frederick Buechner If society prospers at the expense of the intangibles, how can it be called progress? -LLP

Arianrhod	Posted: 20-Oct-2003, 01:12 PM
Lady of Starlight and Petal Group: Celtic Nation Posts: 1,230 Joined: 19-Oct-2003 Zodiac: Vine Realm: Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands	Waves her Terrible Towel at Elspeth YAY ! It is my pleasure to meet you In Service to the Dream, Paula

Elspeth	Posted: 20-Oct-2003, 02:39 PM
Celtic Guardian Group: Wales Posts: 2,216 Joined: 24-Jun-2003 Zodiac: Reed	Still have my 70's vintage towel from back when they were a magical team. Lately it seems to be nothing but bad luck. Gonna put it back in the cedar chest. Feel sorry for me, I live with not only a Browns fan but a Ravens one as well. AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

oldraven	Posted: 20-Oct-2003, 03:08 PM
The Protector of the Unknown Group: Scotland Posts: 3,316 Joined: 20-Oct-2003 Zodiac: Hazel Realm: Guysborough Co., Nova Scotia	I'm from New Scotland, Canada. Around the Antigonish area, Newtown to be precise. Any other Nova Scotians on this board? -------------------- Caw "I am a Canadian by birth, but I am a Highlander by blood and feel under an obligation to do all I can for the sake of the Highlanders and their literature.... I have never yet spoken a word of English to any of my children. They can speak as much English as they like to others, but when they talk to me they have to talk in Gaelic." -Alexander Maclean Sinclair of Goshen (protector of Gaelic Culture) We need more Stan Rogers. jams

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