If you come a little further south to Pittsburgh, we get the Midwest "Pop", AND the Buffalo "and that" except that it gets truncated here to "an' 'at" (try saying it, you'll see what I mean) :)
Most ending consonants, and some leading consonants (usually ones following the missing ending ones) get dropped,. They also like to stick the word "here" in at every opportunity. So you end up with people talking like this: "Wit people talkin''ike dis here, 'an 'at."
Plus the one 'da burgh' is almost famous for:
There are lots of plurals for "you" out there:
In the south its "y'all."
In Jersey its "yous."
In Pittsburgh is "you'uns" (pronounced yinnz).
That one is so common here that an entire type of people around here are referred to as "yinzers."
I never say yinnz, but I do clip my consonants if I forget, but then I only grew up here. I learned to speak in Upstate NY, so my speech sounds Western PA, when I am being lazy, but not to the same degree as the natives. *bg*
Bill
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