Cinderpelt
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I personally find this very interesting. n_n
Look up your city in Wikipedia, and post the link.
So I live right outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. I can actually find my little town on Wikipedia, but I won't post that article. (Our claim to fame is that we have the second most polluted waterway in the US as of the year 2000. 8D)
Here is the link to the Pittsburgh article.
Here are some things I found interesting:
And can you believe there was a whole section written on Pittsburgh dialect? 8D
Look up your city in Wikipedia, and post the link.
So I live right outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. I can actually find my little town on Wikipedia, but I won't post that article. (Our claim to fame is that we have the second most polluted waterway in the US as of the year 2000. 8D)
Here is the link to the Pittsburgh article.
Here are some things I found interesting:
- Population: 312,819
- Population Density: 5,636/sq mi
- Highest recorded temperature: 103*F (39*C) in July.
- Lowest recorded temperature: -22*F (-30*C) in January.
- Ethnicity: 67.63% White, 27.12% African American, 2.75% Asian, 1.32% Hispanic
- Median income to the average household: $28,588 (yearly)
- 20.4% of the population lives below the poverty line.
- Murder rate is 2.61 times the national average.
- Non-violent crime rate is 1.11 times the national average.
And can you believe there was a whole section written on Pittsburgh dialect? 8D
So what's your city have to say about you? :3Local dialect
The Pittsburgh English dialect, popularly referred to as "Pittsburghese", derives from influences from the Scottish-Irish, Welsh, German, Central European and Eastern European immigrants. Locals who speak in this dialect are sometimes referred to as "Yinzers" (from the local word for "you guys/people", yinz [var. yunz]). The dialect has some tonal similarities to other nearby regional dialects (ie, Erie, Baltimore), but is noted for its somewhat staccato rhythms. The staccato qualities of the Pittsburgh dialect have been suggested to originate either from Welsh or from Eastern European immigrants. It also has so many local peculiarities that the New York Times described Pittsburgh as, "the Galapagos Islands of American dialect".[59] The lexicon itself contains notable cognates borrowing from Croatian and other Slavic and European languages. Examples include babushka, pierogi, and halušky.[60]