- Apr 11, 2022
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ResearchInteresting thing I learnt was that people in Pittsburgh made up a word unique to their area. Now how does someone in Spain know about "yinz"?
Since I wanted Kate to use Pittsburgh slang, and I read it's very localized in that area, I researched about it. I had doubts about how to use it, and then the community came to the rescue. There is a subscriber who is from the Pittsburgh area and we talked a lot about Pittsburgh (most of it won't get in the game unfortunately). I sent him that sentence and asked him if my use of "yinz" was correct. He said it was right and it made it into the game.
He played the game yesterday and told me that even the Steelers-Browns banter would be right between Pittsburgh Kate and Cleveland Kim.
I didn't know about it. I read that Pittsburgh's slang has to do with the composition of its population (Irish/German/Polish) but didn't know the specifics.Probably because it's also used in Ulster.
Yinz is the most recent derivation from the original Scots-Irish form you ones or yous ones, a form of the second-person plural that is commonly heard in parts of Ulster. In the first- and third-person, standard English speakers use distinct pronouns to denote singular and plural.
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Thanks! I learned something new today!