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The dialect is Pittsburghese, not the people. Pittsburgher or Yinzer is the singular demonym. And the burgh in Pittsburgh is Scots, not Germanic. For twenty ye
by lowmagnet 10y ago
The dialect is Pittsburghese, not the people. Pittsburgher or Yinzer is the singular demonym.
And the burgh in Pittsburgh is Scots, not Germanic. For twenty years, they even dropped the h from the end.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Pittsburgh https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Pittsburgh
- tankenmate 10y agoScots is a North Germanic language with a smattering of West Germanic vocabulary; as opposed to English which is a North Germanic language with a large amount of West Germanic and French vocabulary). A fair number of scholars regard both English and Scots to belong to the West Germanic branch, but in my estimation the grammar of English and Scots is closer to languages like Nynorsk or older forms of Danish (which is where the Angles and Saxons came from). Vocabulary tends to be more flexible and adaptable, via loan words and the like, than grammar. You're right; the -er suffix is a reference to a person or thing in Germanic languages, my mistake. It should be Pittsburghisch or probably more likely Pittsburghish. Of course this is nothing more than my humble opinion; opinions like farts etc...