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To: Clint N. Suhks; PennsylvaniaMom

Giant Eagle grocery store. Also spelled “Igl” according to this glossary.

http://www.pittsburghese.com/glossary.ep.html?type=nouns

Makes me wonder—is Pittsburgh the only U.S. city with its own dialect?


39 posted on 04/26/2012 10:54:12 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I believe you said you lived in Wisconsin, they have their own Dictionary dontcha know.
43 posted on 04/26/2012 11:06:58 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Maybe it has to do with the mine runoff water we ingest?


44 posted on 04/26/2012 11:08:31 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I’m from Texas and I only understand 1/2 of what a Texan says


51 posted on 04/26/2012 11:26:21 AM PDT by advertising guy (I'm gonna learn how to cook carp and live to be 112 years old.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Makes me wonder—is Pittsburgh the only U.S. city with its own dialect?

Balmawr, Merlund has a pretty strange one as well.

Best thing my parents ever did for me, they did not move back to Pittsburgh until after I had learned to speak.

60 posted on 04/26/2012 12:06:39 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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