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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

A Primer on Pittsburghese (NPR)

From NPR News:

by Guy Raz
All Things Considered, May 24, 2008

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 Dog Shop offer lessons on how to speak.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90805117

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