Do people in Pittsburgh really talk like this ?

<TABLE cellSpacing=15 width=630 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Axst</TD><TD width="80%">Asked. He axst (asked) for a jumbo sammitch. (Submitted by Sally Aglio, Mon Valley)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Baw-win</TD><TD width="80%">To cry hysterically. When I watched dat movie 'Beachez' I couldn't stop baw-win. (Submitted by Bethany Burns, Pittsburgh)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Be-haven</TD><TD width="80%">Type of good behavior. Awlright yinz kids better be be-haven yourselves down there! (Submitted by Ona Taylor, McKeesport)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Blitzen</TD><TD width="80%">To pout, silently, away from others. He's dahn in da cellar blitzen. (Submitted by April Campbell, Norfolk, VA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Blizzerding</TD><TD width="80%">Blizzard. Snowing so hard during windy conditions that you can't see out the window. (Submitted by Jennifer G., Mt. Washington)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Blowdup</TD><TD width="80%">Broke. My toaster blowdup. (Submitted by Bill Gazdagh, Belleville, IL)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Brung</TD><TD width="80%">Brought. He brung a cat in the house. (Submitted by Chuck Granberg, Shaler)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Cattin Uround </TD><TD width="80%">To flirt around when already committed to someone. Eh Bill, can'buleev my ol lady was cattin uround on me, you buleev dat? (Submitted by Josh Allenberg, Misawa AB, Japan)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Clumb</TD><TD width="80%">Climed. I clumb over the fence. (Submitted by Milton Callan, Burbank, CA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Come</TD><TD width="80%">Came. So I come outta Three Rivers, and 'eres a bum axin me fer money! (Submitted by Brendan Sherry, Blacksburg, VA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Conjagate</TD><TD width="80%">Think. Shadd'up I'm tryin' to conjugate (Submitted by Brandon Fisher, Ellwood City, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Deer spottin'</TD><TD width="80%">Driving through PA game lands at night shining a spot light on deer.. Let's take the Jimmy deer spottin'. (Submitted by Mark, Akron)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Dethaw</TD><TD width="80%">Defrost. I have to dethaw the chicken. You can say unthaw too. (Submitted by Michelle Painter, Minneapolis, MN)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Dickerin'</TD><TD width="80%">To bargain. I've been dickerin' with that salesman for an hour. (Submitted by Amy & Bobby DeaVer, Connellsville)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Dip-up</TD><TD width="80%">To put dinner on the table. I'm going to dip-up dinner...get ready to eat. (Submitted by Lou Ann Goodrum, Penn Boro)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Ditched</TD><TD width="80%">Ran away from. Steve was a jag off , so we ditched him. (Submitted by Gary Patz, Dallas, TX)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Divvy up</TD><TD width="80%">To divide or separate. Divvy up the candy so yinz all can have some. (Submitted by Shaun Cloonan, Westminster College)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Drug</TD><TD width="80%">Past tense of drag. I went to a bar and drug this guy home with me. (Submitted by E. Filderman, Pittsburgh)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Et</TD><TD width="80%">Ate. We et like pigs at the picnic. (Submitted by Amy Smallman, Stow, OH)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Feeschun</TD><TD width="80%">Fishing. Gitcher pole an go feeschun danat da Mon. (Submitted by John Shearer, Herminie)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Fell</TD><TD width="80%">Fail. He felled the test. (Submitted by Guy DeRose, Palmdale, CA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Fig-gurd</TD><TD width="80%">Figured. (Submitted by David Hoerster, Sacramento, CA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Ford</TD><TD width="80%">Forward. The next person that sends me a ford, I'll hafta keel. (Submitted by Katrina, Canonsburg)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Gall-a-vant</TD><TD width="80%">To ride around all day, for no good reason. Usually associated with shoppin' n' nat. "Where yinz been, yuz been gall-a-vantin' for hours?" (Submitted by Joshua Patton, Bellevue, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Getda</TD><TD width="80%">Get to. Yinz getda wurk! (Submitted by Paul O'Donnell, Pittsburgh)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Git</TD><TD width="80%">Get. Git that dog aht of here. (Submitted by Rodger Gergacs, Chesterland, OH)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Goink</TD><TD width="80%">Going. Hey, are yinz two goink to eat doze klahndikes der er what? (Submitted by Dan DeWoody, Orlando Florida)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Gopher</TD><TD width="80%">Go for. Let's gopher a walk. (Submitted by T.M. Zangla, South Greensburg, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Got Fives</TD><TD width="80%">Reserve this. I got fives on dat dere seat! (Submitted by Chad, Pitt)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Gowen</TD><TD width="80%">Going. Yinz gowin dahntahn to tree rivers to see da buckcoos play? (Submitted by Harry, Washington, DC)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Greeze</TD><TD width="80%">Grease. Bedder greeze the car 'cuz we gotta drive all daway tah Altoona. (Submitted by Dick Bell, Kennesaw, GA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Hawkin'</TD><TD width="80%">Selling. Hay Mr. Iris, why are ya hawkin' clothes at Pants N'at?... What's up wit dat? (Submitted by Cabbage & Rute, Kent, Ohio)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">He goes/I go</TD><TD width="80%">He said/I said. He goes "Hey, are yinz guys go'n to the mall?" and I go "Yah, yan-to go too?" (Submitted by Linda Vissari & Elliot Wilbur, Westwood, CA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Higher</TD><TD width="80%">Raise, increase. I am goi'n to call Dollar Bank to see if they will higher my ATM limit (Submitted by Jen, The Burgh)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Hook</TD><TD width="80%">To steal. Hey, which one of yous s.o.b.s hooked my arn when I was in da jon? (Submitted by Allan Gereg, St. Clairsville, OH)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Howin</TD><TD width="80%">Howling; laughing. I was howin at that Pittsburghese web page. In its simplest form: "What a how." (Submitted by Lynne Ragazzini, Arlington, VA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Hunnert</TD><TD width="80%">The number after 99. (Submitted by , )</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Hunt-up</TD><TD width="80%">To look for, search. It's gettin cold aht, yinz better hunt-up yer mittens. (Submitted by Kim Burke, Washington, DC)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Huntin</TD><TD width="80%">Looking for something. I am going to the mall to hunt an umbrella. (Submitted by Melissa Kochick, Ohio State University)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Intendo</TD><TD width="80%">Nintendo. Yinz bitter stop playin' that Intendo so much or yinz'll ga blind. (Submitted by Sharon Brown, Lower Burrell)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Jaggin</TD><TD width="80%">To bother or annoy. Quit jaggin me! (Submitted by Rhonda Goodling, Homestead)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Juke</TD><TD width="80%">Flinch. Scaredja, two fer juken (Submitted by Rich Kier, Lompoc, CA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Juke</TD><TD width="80%">Duck. If the batter hits the ball at your head , you gotta juke (Submitted by D.T. Chauvin, West Deer township)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Keeled</TD><TD width="80%">Killed. Did yinz hear baht dat guy gitten keeled inis car lassnite? (Submitted by Jamie Cloos, Cory)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Kenya</TD><TD width="80%">Can you. Also a country in Africa or maybe Ohio. "Kenya get me an arn, buddy?" (Submitted by Fred Mullner, Butler, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Keppum</TD><TD width="80%">Kept them. I took my ahns an keppum cool in a pail of wuddar. (Submitted by David Hennell, London, UK)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Kook</TD><TD width="80%">Cook. I hafta get tada haus an kook a mil (Submitted by Wade Kuhlewind, Connellsville)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Lagahn</TD><TD width="80%">Log on. I coudn lagahn to 'merican ahnline coz their nummers aways bizzy (Submitted by Dan Mahaffey, Ingram)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Leave</TD><TD width="80%">Let. Leave go of the bat before yinz run ta first base. (Submitted by Sue Baird, Fort Worth, Texas)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Left</TD><TD width="80%">Let. My boss left me leave early. (Submitted by heath hankinson, Oakmont)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Liftin'</TD><TD width="80%">To put a meal on the table. I'll be liftin dinner at 5 or "I can't talk right now, I'm liftin dinner." (Submitted by Rita , Irwin)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Loaf</TD><TD width="80%">To hang out. I used to loaf dahn at Yesterday's n'at. (Submitted by Curt Miner, Harrisburg, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Looky</TD><TD width="80%">Look at this. Looky, there's a Gian'Iggle dahn'a street. (Submitted by Joel Kmetz, Durham, NC)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Member</TD><TD width="80%">Remember. Member last summer, we went to Kennywood? (Submitted by Evelyn Andrews, Harrisburg, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Needs</TD><TD width="80%">Simplifies needs to be. Da gutter needs fixed. (Submitted by Maurice Coleman, Freedom, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Notche</TD><TD width="80%">To touch something dirty, (i.e. an animal) OR to make something dirty. Yer gonna hafta wash yer hans after notchin' the cat. OR I just cleanedawindas, don't get em all notched up. (Submitted by Brandon Sirko, Claysburg, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Ooglin'</TD><TD width="80%">Staring. We was all ooglin over one a 'dem dahntahn babooshka mamas. (Submitted by Cabbage, Rute & Richard, Kent, Ohio)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Outen</TD><TD width="80%">To turn off. Outen the light before you go to sleep. (Submitted by Tim Iafolla, Rockville, MD)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Pick up</TD><TD width="80%">Clean. Pick up your room. (Submitted by Nancy Phillips, Cranberry Township)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Pinch</TD><TD width="80%">To be given a citation by a police officer. A cop pinched me for goin' 60 on the Boulevard of the Uhlies (Submitted by Jim Owston, Beckley, WV)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Plinkin'</TD><TD width="80%">Shooting at random objects with a rifle - often while walking through the woods or a junkyard.. Let's go plinkin' up in tha junkyard. (Submitted by Mark, Akron)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Plog/plogged</TD><TD width="80%">Clogged. This refers to the reason your stationary tub overflows on the celler floor. "Yinz better watch aht, da stationary tub's plogged up and its leakin all over da cellr floor." My father-in-law gets a lot of abuse about saying this one a lot. (Submitted by Brian Jefferds, Kaiserslautern, Germany)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Poosh</TD><TD width="80%">Push. Would you poosh my car off the road? (Submitted by M. Bristor,, Washington, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Press off</TD><TD width="80%">Iron clothes. Lemme press off that shirt before you put it on. (Submitted by Rachel , Uniontown)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Rasslin</TD><TD width="80%">Wrestling. Yinz stop rasslin back dere! (Submitted by Michael Friedman, Shadyside)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Redd off</TD><TD width="80%">Clear off. Redd off the table (Submitted by Rich Kier, Lompoc, CA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Redd up</TD><TD width="80%">To tidy up. Hey, quit jaggin around and redd up this room! (Submitted by Everyone, every corner of the free world.)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Rinch</TD><TD width="80%">Rinse. I gotsta rinch my hair now that it's been worshed. (Submitted by Elaine Murphy, North Side)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Rode</TD><TD width="80%">To take a passenger. Jimmy rode me to the AnP in his cahr. (Submitted by Wayne Wright, Huntsville, AL)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Roon, Roont, or Rooned</TD><TD width="80%">Ruin, and its variations. (Submitted by Monika, Germantown, MD)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Root'n</TD><TD width="80%">Searching, Looking. Whadda Ya Root'n Around Fer? (Submitted by Liz, Aliquippa)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Rutch (Rhymes with butch)</TD><TD width="80%">To squirm. Yinz quitcher rutchin' around backair! Often heard by children riding in the backseat. (Submitted by Dave Wertz, Alamogordo, NM)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Says</TD><TD width="80%">Said. So I says to him, yinz wanna go dahn Primanti's n'at? (Submitted by Brendan Sherry, Blacksburg, VA )</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Scooch</TD><TD width="80%">Move over. Hey, scooch your hiney over and lemee sit dahn! (Submitted by Rose Trunzo, Charleroi)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Scootch</TD><TD width="80%">Move. Scootch over, wouldja? (Submitted by Lynne Ragazzini, Arlington, VA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Scroonrahnd</TD><TD width="80%">Screwing around. He was scroonrahnd wit my ol' lady (Submitted by Matt, Norside Pittsburgh)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Seen</TD><TD width="80%">Saw. I seen the plane was in trouble just before it busted up. (Submitted by Candy Miller, Coudersport, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Sepert</TD><TD width="80%">Separate. Sepert yer clothes so I can worsh 'em. (Submitted by Darren Gailey, Johnstown)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Sharn</TD><TD width="80%">Taking a shower. E cain't come aht air right now, he'z sharn. (Submitted by Martin W. Kalish, Jackson, MI)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Shinny</TD><TD width="80%">Climb. Shinny up dat telephone pole and untangle my kite. (Submitted by Keith Mikesell, Alvin, TX)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Skive</TD><TD width="80%">To be takin advantage of. That jagoff from Dallas en at skived me for the parkin spot duhn at 3 rivers. (Submitted by Steve Graf, Dorseyville)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Skwillin</TD><TD width="80%">Squealing. I took da car dahnna shop, cawz the brakes wur skwillin. (Submitted by Matthew Wood, Cambridge, MA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Slepin</TD><TD width="80%">Overslept. Sorry I'm late, I must've slepin. (Submitted by Mark Sekelick, Napa, CA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Smahl</TD><TD width="80%">Smile. Opposite of frown. "Smahl good now, I wanna take yer pitcher." (Submitted by Rick Wentley, West Palm Beach, FL)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Smutz</TD><TD width="80%">To kiss. Any sloppy drooling, as in "Da dog is smutzin' up my clean winda" or "Yer smutzin' all over that sammitch." Or my favorite from my Grandma, "C'mere and give me a big smutz." (Submitted by Rhondalee Rohleder, Cave Creek, AZ)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Soap Powder</TD><TD width="80%">Laundry Detergent. For some reason people West of Pa. haven't heard of this term. (Submitted by Jeff Smith, Columbus, OH)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Sperled</TD><TD width="80%">Spoiled. "Nah look whut ya done! Ya sperled the whole thin'! (Submitted by Heather Brannen, Pittsburgh)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Sprag or Spragg or Sprague</TD><TD width="80%">To use your feet as a brake. Stop spraggin' yer feet. (Submitted by Jim Owston, Beckley, WV)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Sprankle</TD><TD width="80%">Sprain. Youz keep wearin' m high hills n'at youz'll spankle your ankle. (Submitted by Amy Vehar Yarnot, Bethel Park, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Spunt</TD><TD width="80%">Spent. We spunt alls the money on Stillers tickets. (Submitted by Grant Lindsay, Pittsburgh, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Squarsh</TD><TD width="80%">To squish or mash. Hay Hon, come 'ere and squarsh this daddylongleg! (Submitted by Jennifer Kunz, Los Angeles, CA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Steer</TD><TD width="80%">Stir. Not to be confused with what you do to your car; "Gimme dat strahw so's I kin steer my coffee." (Submitted by Ray Orkwis, Arlington, VA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Stoled</TD><TD width="80%">Stolen. Hey, you stoled all my jumbo! (Submitted by Fred Mullner, Butler, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Stop up</TD><TD width="80%">Come over. I told 'dem guys to stop up! (Submitted by Byron Shindler, Houston, TX)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Stramp</TD><TD width="80%">Step on. Be careful not to stramp on the cat. (Submitted by Teddy Antoon, Hopwood, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Throwed</TD><TD width="80%">Threw. Didya see him throwed that ball? (Submitted by Linda Marple, Moon Township)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Tooken</TD><TD width="80%">Taken, stolen, removed. Hey I need to call the police. my purse was tooken! (Submitted by Jen , The Burgh)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Tramp</TD><TD width="80%">Step. Don't tramp on at lit cigret with your bare feet. (Submitted by Vivian Corr, Los Angeles, CA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Unloosen</TD><TD width="80%">To make something loose. Can you unloosen da lid for me? (Submitted by Dave Dee, Seabrook, MD)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Unthaw</TD><TD width="80%">Defrost. Take the chicken outa da freezer so's it can unthaw. (Submitted by Gloria Laugherty, Connellsville)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Videoin</TD><TD width="80%">Video Taping. Are yinz gonna be videoin the Stiller game? (Submitted by Chad M. Burnheimer, Fayetteville, NC)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Wants</TD><TD width="80%">Wants to be. He wants taken seriously. (Submitted by Laura Mesner, Nashville, TN)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Wisht</TD><TD width="80%">Wished. I rilly wisht he'd worsh himself once in a while. (Submitted by D. McCormick, Dormont)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Worsh</TD><TD width="80%">Wash. I gotta worsh my car. (Submitted by Chuck Ross, Bloomsburg, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Worsht</TD><TD width="80%">Washed. My car needs worsht. (Submitted by Leslie Bush, Youngstown, OH)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Wrenched</TD><TD width="80%">Twisted. I wrenched my foot dahntahn. (Submitted by Jim Nazaruk, Butler, PA)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Wrinch</TD><TD width="80%">Rinse. After I worsh my hair I wrinch the soap aht of it. (Submitted by Jim Park, Pittsburgh)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Wuhn cha</TD><TD width="80%">Wouldn't you. Wuhn cha rather by an arn? (Submitted by Allison Black, Okinawa, Japan)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Yak, Yakked, Yakkin</TD><TD width="80%">To Talk, speak. My old lady wuz yakkin on da phone all nite n'at. (Submitted by Rachel & Michael Mohr, North Hills)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width="20%">Yar</TD><TD width="80%">You Are. Tell me where yar goin to party tonight! (Submitted by D. Krucik, Monongahela)</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>​

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