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Belle, you're crackin me up!

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Ok, back to picking on Pittsburgh. I know they have different words/expressions than other areas of the country, but I could not understand why they omitted the words "to be" out of a sentence. I'm no literary scholar, but they never used it!. For eg. "the car needs washed", "the house needs vacuumed", "my hair needs cut".
As far as the southern-isms, just leave the "g" off of anything ending with "ing", and you'll sound suthun' enough. "How y'all doin'?" "Where y'all goin'?"...."Why on out past Short Pump (real name)ayn' onta Awlville (Oilville)".

How about my front "stoop" as compared to my front "step?" When I lived in Mayfair, we always went up "the avenue". I wonder if any other cities ues that term?
Many long-time Phildaelphians refer to city blocks as "squares". And also I've heard what we call intersections called "cross-streets " by non-Phila. natvies.

Murph

No, but do you remember "Snake Road?"

Murph

Wasn't it down by Juniata? Near the cemetery. I vaguely remember it.

[quote="monavano"]Ok, back to picking on Pittsburgh. I know they have different words/expressions than other areas of the country, but I could not understand why they omitted the words "to be" out of a sentence. I'm no literary scholar, but they never used it!. For eg. "the car needs washed", "the house needs vacuumed", "my hair needs cut".
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Is that a wrong way to say it??? I say it that way all the time.

how about "it's all" to mean there is no more of something? ("I'll have some cake." "You can't, it's all")

You mean "needs warshed".

Phter Pittsburghisms include saying "gumban" instead of "Rubber band" and saying "redden up" to mean "tidy up" (I guess "redden" is Pittsburgh for "ready"). I notice that both Pittsburgh and Phila say "iggle" to mean "Eagle" (in Phila it refers to the team, in Pittsbugrh it refers to a supermarket chain "The Gian Iggle").

Yes, in the shadow of Parkview Hospital off of Wyoming Ave.