(For those of you who don't speak
Pittsburghese, N'at means "and that")
Other Pittsburghese:
The car needs worhed- The car
needs TO BE wAShed.
Yinz- you plural, you all
Arn- Iron, as in Iron City
Crick- creek
Chipped ham- thinly sliced
Dahntahn- downtown
Hoagie- sub, submarine sandwich
Pop- coke, pepsi, any soft drink
Sahside- south side
Sammitches- sandwiches
Sketti- spaghetti
Stillers- Steelers
Worsh- wash
And my favorite: Jeet jet? No,
jew?- Did you eat yet? No, did you?
For those of you who haven't
figured this out yet, I'm from Pittsburgh.
It's a great city, and if it
was warm and on a coast, I'd be there now. Unfortunately, it's hard to
study marine science there..
Pittsburgh is a beautiful city.
The first and fourth images show
"the Point", where two rivers (The Allegheny and the Mon) combine to form
the Ohio. The glass castle shaped building in the right of picture 3 is
my dad's office building. The red car in the fourth picture is the incline,
a tram car that goes up and down Mount Washington (where the first
picture was taken from- you can see that it's quite a view)
Pittsburgh is known for many
things:
Proud home of Heinz Ketchup
Proud home of Mister Rogers, 1928-2003
Did you know that his mother made
him that sweater?
Proud home of three pro sports
teams (all used to be good, at least)
Proud Filming location for many
movies and TV shows,
including Silence of the Lambs,
Dogma, Inspector Gadget, and
the Guardian.
Proud home of Andrew Carnegie,
an early steel industrialist (if you live in a major city, you have a Carnegie
Library or museum somewhere nearby). We have a world class natural history
museum and concert hall because of him.
Proud to hate Cleveland, as all
civilized people should.
You suck Cleveland.
Proud to be one of the greenest
(in terms of environmentalism) cities in the country, not bad for a city
that 30 years ago was covered in coal dust. (On a side note, everyone was
thrilled to discover that most of our older buildings are in fact white
marble, not black as the coal dust made them appear).
I am a proud Pittsburgher.