From the International Linguistics Olympiad webpage (which started here yesterday)
- The unique 2nd person plural pronoun “yinz”
- The “au” sound being pronouned as “ah”, so that “house” comes out as “haas” and “Downtown” as “Dahntahn”.
- “Full” and “fool” being pronounced the same, as well as “pull” and “pool”.
- “Needs”, “wants”, and “could use” combining with a participle rather than a gerund, as in “The car needs washed” or “There’s work that needs done”. (Pittsburghers think the gerund in “The car needs washing” or “Work needs doing” sounds very strange.)
- Positive anymore: “Food is so expensive anymore!”
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