No need to apologize. You explained yourself and even said you weren’t being snarky! I totally agree that there is no difference in those words. I can’t stop won’t stop. Told my students one time how we all say it the same. It was hysterical the whole class is going “pull…puuulllll…pul”. “Our” and “are” are seriously the hardest for me. So is “tile”. I said “floor tahl” in college and my roommate was from Harrisburg. Genuinely she was concerned for me. Didn’t even notice

I agree. I do hope it never ever goes away. But, that’s why we keep carrick around…

You’re a car salesmen in Pittsburgh it looks like. I WANT to buy a car from a true yinzer. I do not want my children learning the wrong way to say things in school. i.e. why I even care about pronunciation. Not a terrible post, you just don’t agree.

You are right. My parents are both very blue collar and from a long line of immigrant/steel mill workers. I’m proud of it! Can’t deny that in our day in age that WE (millennials/Gen Z/Gen X) cannot walk into a professional situation and start saying THE STOCKS ARE DAHN, DEM RAIZES ARNET COMMIN, OPEN UP YER COMPUTER. BE CAREFUL, THE FLOOR IS SLIPPY. I NEED TO GUMBAND THESE FINANCE REPORTS”.

Like, yes, you can say those things and fck em if they make fun of you, but in reality, we can’t full on yinzer in every situation.

Getting her a life insurance policy as we speak

Are you even from Pittsburgh? It’s funny to talk about the accent if you’re from here. You don’t get it. My mom actually told me people at her work make fun of her heavy Pittsburgh accent and she tries to correct it. There is 10000% a correct way to say things. Are you kidding? This an a light hearted discussion about OUR accent. Don’t call be bigoted. It’s my mf mom?

Just a joke and not trying to actually recover. To be honest, I was just trying to speak correctly to teach my students correctly. I actually noticed this because I was reading an excerpt to them and the sentence said, “Are our children…”. I’m standing in front of them going “AHR AHR children” like a damn pirate. Started to realize I say many things incorrectly such as: pull, pool, and pole. I say them all as “pull”. I honestly only watch how I speak when teaching; otherwise, I wouldn’t notice these things.

People took this so literally like I hate my mother for her accent. Clearly I have it, too! Guess this was more of a question of how to pronounce ruin and now I am ashamed I am working class and have an accent because Reddit came for me (from people who don’t have true yinzer families).

You spelled Pittsburgh wrong in your bio. Don’t hate on me bc you wish you were from here

That’s true - it is charming as I’ve never really thought about it going away. Every generation of my fam has it but not the kids. Hopefully the gems get passed down. I’m not perfect and can hear the accent still. Gotta let my mom live 😂

She’s 65 and keeping the accent forever. Just genuinely wondering as I’ve never heard another pittsburgher say it that way. I’ll unlock my mom from the basement now and allow her to speak

Agree 100%. I embrace it more as I get older. I also get more yinzered as I drink and/or socialize with my fellow Pittsburghers :) I’ve struggled professionally with certain words and still do!

Seriously she says “roining”. Ex) the quick brown fox was roin-ning the lazy dog’s nap. I wish it were roowin and I could let it slide…

She has more of an “awv” than “uv”

Amazing. I’ve seen this before how did I not think of this