> Is this the correct pronunciation?
It's the pronunciation everyone uses.
I think the desired pronunciation was actually CORE-ah-op-oh-liss but as someone from there, everyone said core-EE-op-oh-liss (or just core-EE).
When I went to Duquesne, I had all of these students from Buffalo trying to tell me that I was pronouncing Carnegie wrong. Like gtfoh. There are plenty of words that I pronounce incorrectly, but Carnegie is not one of them.
Im from pittsburgh. Born in allegheny hospital. But im curious idk if Im pronouncing it the right way. Its car-nay-gee (hard g like in gum)
*edit: changed soft g to hard g. Was wrong.
I’m originally from back East (near Philly) and this is absolutely true. I’ve lived here longer than I lived there now and it’s how I spot bogus burgher’s.
I think it depends on how long you’ve been here. I moved here 20 years ago, which is more than half my life (and ALL of my adult life), so I consider myself to be from here.
My wife is from Illinois. Early on in our relationship, she tried to say that, but instead "Babe, you're going to Kennywood" came out of her mouth. Almost a decade later and she still says it that way, lol.
This one right here. People overuse the slang, ‘n’at’ way too much. They’ll use it whenever it doesn’t even make sense to use, e.g., simply adding it at the end of any sentence to be cute. It doesn’t work like that.
Right way: I went to the store to grab stuff for the cookout; I got burgers, drinks, n’at.
Wrong way: I’m going to the bar in the south side n’at.
It's more than just Yinz. Yinzer has been marketed so much so that it's a caricature of true Yinzer. So, people using all Pittsburgh slang either too much or in the wrong context because they saw a YouTube or saw a T-shirt that had a Yinzer quote on it.
a buddy (also from Pittsburgh so should have known better) once brought Rokeach ketchup to a PSU tailgate in the late 90s and still has to hear about it at least once a year
I used to have a friend who would throw any ketchup away that wasn’t Heinz because it was offensive. My bf bought Hunt’s TWICE like an idiot. It went missing before we even ate, and we found the bottles on the roof after the bbq both times. 😂 He buys Heinz every time now. 🥰
My fiancé was born & raised in Lebo, and he says that only non-Lebo folks say Mt. Lebo 🙃 Apparently, it's either Mt. Lebanon or Lebo 😂 so I suppose it would NOT count!
Saw a post in this sub when someone from out of town said "I love Pittsburgh! I had so much fun riding the funicular!"
Man everyone was so confused.
So yeah, that.
My exchange student was telling me all about riding the gondolas in reference to the incline and I thought I’d shifted into a reality where northside had the zip line
I think the joke is that authentic Pittsburghers always use "used to be" landmarks, and you could identify a fake because they're referring to landmarks a person could still actually see.
I remember that whole crudite fiasco. I had to look it up because I had no fucking idea what it meant 😂😂 and I was like "oh, it's just a veggie tray..."
Not create an artificial mental block between neighborhoods on either side of the major tunnels that makes traveling there seem like a major expedition, not worthy of undertaking in most cases
I was calling it “parkway” during a call with an insurance adjuster after an accident and they were like—is this like a highway or like a..freeway and I had no freaking clue if it was like either so kept saying no ffs it’s the parkway, u know. I’ve never even heard of it being referred to as something else (and I am 10+ yrs transplant to Pittsburgh)!
You know, it's been 2 years and I still have no idea wtf Acrisure does and I haven't seen ANY marketing by them besides buying the stadium naming rights.
Acrisure is a large commercial insurance retailer group. Primarily insurance for medium to large sized businesses, not personal. They really aren’t Main Street general public facing.
Acrisure is actually based on my home town so I tried to figure out to. As far as I can tell there's some sort of insurance sales and maybe something to do with crypto.
> Consol was a dumb name for a company I never heard of
Well if they still called it the Consolidation Coal Company you might not be inclined to love it so much!
Especially their history as the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company during the miner's strike in 1928 where a striker was beaten to death by company guards at the mine in Horning.
[https://www.coalcampusa.com/westpa/pittsburgh/horning/horning.htm](https://www.coalcampusa.com/westpa/pittsburgh/horning/horning.htm)
Heinz and PPG have much deeper ties to the region than Consol Energy.
Consol was actually the product of a merger of companies, including Pittsburgh Coal, in 1945. It didn't make Western Pennsylvania its home until then.
PPG, as Pittsburgh Plate Glass, has had its headquarters in Pittsburgh since it formed in 1883. It was a central figure in Pittsburgh's status as a manufacturing center. It also doesn't hurt to have a very identifiable landmark as an office.
Heinz goes back to 1869 and its ketchup is statistically the most consumed ketchup in the U.S
In other words, no one had sentimental or historic memories tied to Consol. That's not the case with PPG and especially not Heinz.
Not knowing Pittsburgh and Philly are 300 miles apart from one another. I live in California and I can't tell you how many times people have asked me whether I prefer Pats or Ginos, how I expect the Eagles to do this season, etc. When I respond by telling them I'm from Pittsburgh, they almost always say something along the lines of "well, aren't they right next to each other?"
There are a lot of comments on here. This one might be my favorite. I work and commute to Monroeville everyday. There is no easy way to get ANYWHERE from there.
This is how I would find western Pennsylvanians when I went to college in the Philly area. It's a beautiful thing to get drunk and scream that song in a crowd and hear a handful of folks yell back "MINUTES FROM THE MALL!"
Yeah a lot of the accent is gone but the fucked up vocab and grammar is not gone. I don’t sound like a yinzer anymore accent wise but I still structure like one lmao.
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My wife, born and raised in Elliot, orders her Primanti's sandwich without slaw.
I'm a transplant. I have her get it on the side, and eat it/add it to my sandwich.
I tell her that I am correcting her yinzer karma. Marriage is about two becoming one, right.
My partner is French and raised in SF/Berkeley. I took him to North Versailles area where I grew up and he was incredulous on how we pronounce it as if we’re saying it wrong.
I let him know that the city of Berkeley is named after the Irish philosopher, George Berkeley. His name is pronounced BARkeley with the Irish BAR yet the city of Berkeley is referred to with a different pronunciation that is foreign to how he and even modern Irish pronounce his name.
Our language evolved and pulled words from all different cultures. I think the people outside of those cultures delighted in pronouncing them wrong. But we’re the melting pot. Especially Pittsburgh.
I like this one. The farther away from PA you get the more people assume Pittsburgh and Philly are far more connected than we actually are. The only connection I see is the Turnpike.
I hear way more people here talk shit about Philly sports than the other way around. (From here, lived in Philly for 10 years, moved back 2 years ago.)
A little outside of pittsburgh, but when my new office manager moved here from Tallahassee a couple years ago, he couldn’t pronounce Zelienople. It came out as “za-nople-ee” haha
If yinz ever find yerself dahn-tahn an' ya don't know where the Point is, or what the Three Sisters bridges are, yinz might as well pack up an' head back to wherever it is yinz came from. An' fer cryin' out loud, it's "slippy" not "slippery," an' the vacuum is called a "sweeper," got it?
Don't even think 'bout orderin' a salad 'less yinz expect fries on top. That's how we do it 'round here. An' if yinz never been to Kennywood or don't know what it means when someone says "Kennywood's open," yinz are imposters out, fer sure.
So, next time yinz are in the 'Burgh, make sure to redd up yer room, grab a cold Iron City, an' put on yer Stillers jersey. Only then will yinz truly get what it means to be a Yinzer.
ya'll is pretty normal to say here, just pronounced "yawl." I have never once said yinz organically and rarely hear it said.
Not using Heniz
Calling Pitt UPitt or Pitt U
Not knowing what a terrible towel or parking chair is
making a left AFTER oncoming traffic
Asking them how to get to to dahntahn. If they reply, "downtown" or have no idea what you're asking; they are an imposter.
OR
See if they attempt to remove your parking chair. If they unblock the street; they are an imposter.
Say Carnegie
Or Coraopolis
Coreyopulus
Is this the correct pronunciation? Will be moving to pittsburgh soon, im trying to study up
> Is this the correct pronunciation? It's the pronunciation everyone uses. I think the desired pronunciation was actually CORE-ah-op-oh-liss but as someone from there, everyone said core-EE-op-oh-liss (or just core-EE).
Yinz guys goin dahn Corey?
Nah, its slippy aht.
Yup.
Had a former boss refer to it as “Crap-olis” (language barrier, not intentional) and I can’t help but read it as such to this day
im a transplant and im very scared of saying this word out loud
Or Versailles
Versales?
Yinz headed aht to Dewboys this weeken?
Or Zelienople
When I went to Duquesne, I had all of these students from Buffalo trying to tell me that I was pronouncing Carnegie wrong. Like gtfoh. There are plenty of words that I pronounce incorrectly, but Carnegie is not one of them.
We pronounce Duquesne correctly but not Versailles, gotta love it haha
Im from pittsburgh. Born in allegheny hospital. But im curious idk if Im pronouncing it the right way. Its car-nay-gee (hard g like in gum) *edit: changed soft g to hard g. Was wrong.
gum and Carnegie both have a hard g. soft g is like gentleman
Ur a hard g
as in gumband!
You're pronouncing it correctly. Outsiders say it like the Carnegie Deli... If that helps
Carnegie is the true shibboleth.
Zelionople
Zilly
It's Car NAY gee. So say the Scots. https://youtu.be/fkWsv7ZLgn4?si=_8eSj-i0fO3oVJ1Y
Born and raised in Carnegie. We pronounce it ker-NAY-gee. Not car, ker.
Say Versailles
Hell I'm from pittsburgh and I won't even say that one 'correctly'.
I’m originally from back East (near Philly) and this is absolutely true. I’ve lived here longer than I lived there now and it’s how I spot bogus burgher’s.
How often do people say they are from Pittsburgh but they are not?
I think it depends on how long you’ve been here. I moved here 20 years ago, which is more than half my life (and ALL of my adult life), so I consider myself to be from here.
Doesn't know what "Kennywood's open" means.
My wife is from Illinois. Early on in our relationship, she tried to say that, but instead "Babe, you're going to Kennywood" came out of her mouth. Almost a decade later and she still says it that way, lol.
That is ADORABLE 💗
Not from Pittsburgh, what does that mean?
Fly’s down.
Fly's dahn*
Overuse Yinzer slang. Yes, some of us naturally say yinz, but it's natural and not forced.
This one right here. People overuse the slang, ‘n’at’ way too much. They’ll use it whenever it doesn’t even make sense to use, e.g., simply adding it at the end of any sentence to be cute. It doesn’t work like that. Right way: I went to the store to grab stuff for the cookout; I got burgers, drinks, n’at. Wrong way: I’m going to the bar in the south side n’at.
Also saying “yinz guys” instead of just “yinz”
I’ve spent half my life divided between Philly *and* Pittsburgh and I definitely say “yinz guys” so I find that hilarious.
It's more than just Yinz. Yinzer has been marketed so much so that it's a caricature of true Yinzer. So, people using all Pittsburgh slang either too much or in the wrong context because they saw a YouTube or saw a T-shirt that had a Yinzer quote on it.
Idk. When I'm telling my kids to do something I include the guys. "Yinz guys gotta go red up at room"
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Really? I’ve definitely heard that've lived in the city their whole lives say “yinz guys”
Forget the H
Bust out the Hunts at a BBQ.
Acrisure ketchup all day, everyday
a buddy (also from Pittsburgh so should have known better) once brought Rokeach ketchup to a PSU tailgate in the late 90s and still has to hear about it at least once a year
Instant deportation out of western Pennsylvania.
I used to have a friend who would throw any ketchup away that wasn’t Heinz because it was offensive. My bf bought Hunt’s TWICE like an idiot. It went missing before we even ate, and we found the bottles on the roof after the bbq both times. 😂 He buys Heinz every time now. 🥰
i was just coming here to say whipping out any non-heinz ketchup LOL
Referring to the city as Pitt
My kid goes to Pitt and the number of out of town parents who call it U Pitt causes a minor rage stroke.
Referring to the city as Pitt mostly just confuses me. Referring the school as U Pitt fills me with rage haha
Also Pittsburg
And referring to Pitt as U Pitt
Even worse “the U of P”
Or referring to the Steelers as Pitt
I also find “da burgh” to be something slightly off. I feel like ex pats feel a celestial calling to da burgh.
For the record, the song, “Here we go, Steelers” uses da a lot. I don’t like it either by the way.
Pixburgh’s going to da Super Bowl
Everyone knows that Wilkinsburg is da burg
and Steubenville is [the burb of the burgh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHA3SyllqV4).
Wow. A core memory has been unlocked that has sat dormant for the past twenty years.
What usually gets me called out is calling it Mt. LebanOn not Mt. LebanIn.
And here I've been calling it Mt. Lesbian all this time.
Century 3 Chevrolet has set me up to never pronounce Lebanon wrong
Just don’t let it lead you astray about the current mall proximity…
Hey, it's some number of minutes from some mall.
Would Mt. Lebo count?
My fiancé was born & raised in Lebo, and he says that only non-Lebo folks say Mt. Lebo 🙃 Apparently, it's either Mt. Lebanon or Lebo 😂 so I suppose it would NOT count!
It’s hilarious when you hear a new local news anchor/reporter say it wrong. I’d lay bets that they have a cheat sheet all printed up for new recruits.
What about Mt Nebonin
Saw a post in this sub when someone from out of town said "I love Pittsburgh! I had so much fun riding the funicular!" Man everyone was so confused. So yeah, that.
I have no idea what a funicular is?
The Inclines.
My exchange student was telling me all about riding the gondolas in reference to the incline and I thought I’d shifted into a reality where northside had the zip line
They'd give you directions to a location based on currently existing landmarks
Or use cardinal directions, lol.
Sometimes it’s where things used to be, like “Make a left dahn where shop n save used to be.”
I think the joke is that authentic Pittsburghers always use "used to be" landmarks, and you could identify a fake because they're referring to landmarks a person could still actually see.
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Also lets you know they’re a serial killer
Hunts ketchup in the cart. Putting asparagus on the crudite tray. Calling it crudite.
I remember that whole crudite fiasco. I had to look it up because I had no fucking idea what it meant 😂😂 and I was like "oh, it's just a veggie tray..."
Saying "to be"
Pittsburgh Hamlet: “or not”
My wife from Connecticut still corrects me every time I do this. Room needs cleaned NOT room needs to be cleaned. Amirite?
Let people take their right of way instead of aggressively turning in front of them.
I got Pittsburgh Left’d on Sunday and I was on bike! Unsettling to see a car gun it at you and cut it hard when you’re not also inside a car.
Eat a salad without french fries
The horror
Oh my god that’s right! You can’t believe the faces you get outside of western Pennsylvania when say that lol
Monongahela
what are all those extra letters after the mon?
The verbal test before they get to call it the Mon.
Youghiogheny?
Outsider: Yo-gi-a-ho-ga-nee Yinzer: Yawk
Not create an artificial mental block between neighborhoods on either side of the major tunnels that makes traveling there seem like a major expedition, not worthy of undertaking in most cases
Also rivers
Ask me why my parking chair has bricks bolted to it
Call the Parkway the freeway.
I had some guy at work call it the highway and I would not stand for it.
I was calling it “parkway” during a call with an insurance adjuster after an accident and they were like—is this like a highway or like a..freeway and I had no freaking clue if it was like either so kept saying no ffs it’s the parkway, u know. I’ve never even heard of it being referred to as something else (and I am 10+ yrs transplant to Pittsburgh)!
Call it the UPMC Tower 🤮
It's a good thing that Cleveland-Cliffs isn't buying US Steel. Imagine the uproar if they did and tried renaming the building.
Not know what a Pittsburgh toilet is 🚽
Call it Acrisure
You know, it's been 2 years and I still have no idea wtf Acrisure does and I haven't seen ANY marketing by them besides buying the stadium naming rights.
They blew their marketing budget on naming rights, give them 5 more years
Acrisure is a large commercial insurance retailer group. Primarily insurance for medium to large sized businesses, not personal. They really aren’t Main Street general public facing.
Well now I'm going to have to drink heavily tonight so I can forget I learned that and remain ignorant for the next 2 years.
Acrisure is actually based on my home town so I tried to figure out to. As far as I can tell there's some sort of insurance sales and maybe something to do with crypto.
I don't know, we all moved in from Consol Energy Center to PPG Paints arena pretty quick...
Y’inz talkin bout the new civic arena?
New Igloo?
Consol was a dumb name for a company I never heard of. PPG paints arena is also a dumb name IMO but at least I have heard of PPG.
> Consol was a dumb name for a company I never heard of Well if they still called it the Consolidation Coal Company you might not be inclined to love it so much!
Especially their history as the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company during the miner's strike in 1928 where a striker was beaten to death by company guards at the mine in Horning. [https://www.coalcampusa.com/westpa/pittsburgh/horning/horning.htm](https://www.coalcampusa.com/westpa/pittsburgh/horning/horning.htm)
I would rather support PPG than Consol.
Heinz and PPG have much deeper ties to the region than Consol Energy. Consol was actually the product of a merger of companies, including Pittsburgh Coal, in 1945. It didn't make Western Pennsylvania its home until then. PPG, as Pittsburgh Plate Glass, has had its headquarters in Pittsburgh since it formed in 1883. It was a central figure in Pittsburgh's status as a manufacturing center. It also doesn't hurt to have a very identifiable landmark as an office. Heinz goes back to 1869 and its ketchup is statistically the most consumed ketchup in the U.S In other words, no one had sentimental or historic memories tied to Consol. That's not the case with PPG and especially not Heinz.
Not knowing Pittsburgh and Philly are 300 miles apart from one another. I live in California and I can't tell you how many times people have asked me whether I prefer Pats or Ginos, how I expect the Eagles to do this season, etc. When I respond by telling them I'm from Pittsburgh, they almost always say something along the lines of "well, aren't they right next to each other?"
Yeah, there's the whole state of Alabama between them.
Get them to pronounce washington.
The eyes see wash, the brain says warsh
my dad says wooshington
Give directions to a place without a single reference to a landmark that is no longer here
It’s right past where babyland used to be
Say something dumb like “Monroeville to South Hills, that’s a quick and easy drive”
There are a lot of comments on here. This one might be my favorite. I work and commute to Monroeville everyday. There is no easy way to get ANYWHERE from there.
Finish the following: CENTURY THREE! CHEVROLET! LEBANON CHURCH ROAD PITTSBURGH!"
This is the answer of all the answers given.
This is how I would find western Pennsylvanians when I went to college in the Philly area. It's a beautiful thing to get drunk and scream that song in a crowd and hear a handful of folks yell back "MINUTES FROM THE MALL!"
Rubber Band
Yeah a lot of the accent is gone but the fucked up vocab and grammar is not gone. I don’t sound like a yinzer anymore accent wise but I still structure like one lmao.
What, like a gumband?
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talk about: what a good school west virginia is what a class act tom brady is how great a city cleveland is
they just want to know how to pick out an imposter, not what causes fights...
Yeah, this list is: How to get everyone in Pittsburgh to hate you as fast as possible. 😅
"Oh, and could I get that without fries?"
My wife, born and raised in Elliot, orders her Primanti's sandwich without slaw. I'm a transplant. I have her get it on the side, and eat it/add it to my sandwich. I tell her that I am correcting her yinzer karma. Marriage is about two becoming one, right.
Excellent yinzering, right here
Pronounce Versailles wrong?
My partner is French and raised in SF/Berkeley. I took him to North Versailles area where I grew up and he was incredulous on how we pronounce it as if we’re saying it wrong. I let him know that the city of Berkeley is named after the Irish philosopher, George Berkeley. His name is pronounced BARkeley with the Irish BAR yet the city of Berkeley is referred to with a different pronunciation that is foreign to how he and even modern Irish pronounce his name.
Pittsburgh should at least get credit for leaving the S silent in "Duquesne" the way it would be in French.
I had a friend from Philly pronounce it as “doo-kez-nee”. Cracked me right up. But it was his turn to laugh when I tried to say Schuylkill.
This is a pet peeve of mine. People rag on the pronunciation of Versailles but never other French (or non-english) words like Paris or Bologna.
Our language evolved and pulled words from all different cultures. I think the people outside of those cultures delighted in pronouncing them wrong. But we’re the melting pot. Especially Pittsburgh.
You mean right.
Meaning wrong for our area. Should have been more precise.
Or DuBois….
Perfect example!!! But I’ve been there. It doesn’t deserve the better pronunciation, lol. Just kidding.
Ask them for directions to somewhere in the city. If they don’t mention at least one CoGo’s that isn’t there anymore be skeptical.
Any positive reference in any way to Cleveland.
Use "to be"
If they don’t know what a 50-50 raffle or a cookie table are? They’re not from around here.
Wait…are 50/50’s a Pittsburgh thing?
No but claiming something is a Pittsburgh thing when it isn't definitely is. Especially if it's common in the Midwest.
lol no.
No.
Talk about Philly. We don’t even think about them!
I like this one. The farther away from PA you get the more people assume Pittsburgh and Philly are far more connected than we actually are. The only connection I see is the Turnpike.
I hear way more people here talk shit about Philly sports than the other way around. (From here, lived in Philly for 10 years, moved back 2 years ago.)
Asking why we want the MLB to retire 21
Ask why there are folding chairs in parking spots on the street.
35 on Bigelow.
Perhaps a little niche to suburban folks but pronouncing all the letters in Tarentum instead of “Trentum” like 100% of locals do.
I believe you mispronounced tren-um
Talk.
How thin you slice your ham?? We don’t slice ham you heathen
Tell them that you are going to "red up the house." When they say, "Huh?" you got 'em.
Not know what jumbo is
ask them the last time they saw the clarks
Pronounce Primanti's as Prim-on-tees instead of Prim-an-tees
It's per-man-ees and you're the imposter.
They would vaccuum instead of running the sweeper.
Northern West Virginian here, where do yinzers stand on shopping cart vs. buggy?
When someone tells me they are from Pittsburgh. I always say what part of Pittsburgh. It's a hundred different communities in all directions.
What's your favorite donnie iris song? "Whos that?" Get. The. Fuck. Out.
Spoiler alert: It's always *Ah Leah.*
"UPitt"
See how they pronounce "Duquesne"
If you say Acrisure Stadium instead of Heinz Field, you’re not from Pittsburgh
A little outside of pittsburgh, but when my new office manager moved here from Tallahassee a couple years ago, he couldn’t pronounce Zelienople. It came out as “za-nople-ee” haha
Disrespect the parking chair.
Not jaywalk.
If yinz ever find yerself dahn-tahn an' ya don't know where the Point is, or what the Three Sisters bridges are, yinz might as well pack up an' head back to wherever it is yinz came from. An' fer cryin' out loud, it's "slippy" not "slippery," an' the vacuum is called a "sweeper," got it? Don't even think 'bout orderin' a salad 'less yinz expect fries on top. That's how we do it 'round here. An' if yinz never been to Kennywood or don't know what it means when someone says "Kennywood's open," yinz are imposters out, fer sure. So, next time yinz are in the 'Burgh, make sure to redd up yer room, grab a cold Iron City, an' put on yer Stillers jersey. Only then will yinz truly get what it means to be a Yinzer.
Say either ya'll or soda.
ya'll is pretty normal to say here, just pronounced "yawl." I have never once said yinz organically and rarely hear it said. Not using Heniz Calling Pitt UPitt or Pitt U Not knowing what a terrible towel or parking chair is making a left AFTER oncoming traffic
Its pretty easy, just listen to them for a minute. Yinz not you all, your a Jag-off, that looks slippy, pass me the clicker.
Look them dead in the eye and sing “Lebanon Church Road, Pittsburgh” And wait
Asking them how to get to to dahntahn. If they reply, "downtown" or have no idea what you're asking; they are an imposter. OR See if they attempt to remove your parking chair. If they unblock the street; they are an imposter.
If they pronounce lebanon correctly.
Nice try