Questions for Britishers

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Roughly equivalent to fag, queer etc, often with the connotations of pederasty...

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But isn't a fag a cigarette?

There's some pretty strong accents in the Pittsburgh, PA area, where I grew up:Dahntahn- Downtown
anat- and that
jagoff- "He's a jack-off"
yinz-you all
nebby-nosey
Jeet?-did you eat?
crick-creek
grinny-chipmunk
keller-colorairyago-There you go
like at-like that
can a corn-something easyMore here:http://pittsburghese.com/

You never listened to Myron Cope...on sports?Here's a great website which has some audio clips of Cope doing sports commentary. A more authentic Pittsburgh accent you will never hear.http://www.iencompass.com/subsites/myron/default.htmlJim and I lived on Graham St in Friendship, which is between Bloomfield and Shadyside while he was working at CMU.I really miss the 'burgh and would love to live there permenantly.You shuld go back there now. It's very clean, and there is so much to do and see. They have developed the riverfront down by the Grand Concourse, and although it is unfortunately full of national chains, it's a lot better than the empty dock that was there. The Strip District is also filled with restaurants and night spots that have a lot of live music.There has also been a big push to develop a lot of older downtown buildings into lofts and apartments so people will live there.Did you ever get a Primanti (pronounced, "Permani's") Bros. sandwich in the strip in the middle of the night?Did you ever go to Point State Park to watch the Zambelli fireworks on the 4th of July?

Wow, I hope you don't mind me saying so, but those were the places and names of my childhood (sorry!) and it's great to talk about them again.The strip probably wasn't anywhere tyou wanted to be back then...just a lot of wholesale produce markets run by Italians and Koreans.Did you know that something like 5 out of the 7 Hindu temples in the US are in the Pittsburgh area? Man, do I ever miss the fabulous Indian food!And did you ever go to Dell's or the Pleasure Bar (both Italian Restaurants, not a bar and a strip club as the names suggest) in Bloomfield?We were living there in the middle of all of that new construction at CMU. The new student center is really great. We went to go see Art Spiegleman, author of the graphic novel "Maus" speak there.It's too bad you didn't get around town more. You were there for 3 years and you never made it to the point for the 4th? Wow, you must have worked too much. The Zambelli's are one of the top fireworks companies in the country and did the big show in NYC a few years back. I try to get there every couple of years to go see them with my sister.Anyway, Percy, you'd better be careful. You're giving more and more information about you. Some of us could figure out who you could be. Tennis coach at CMU in the 70's...science major...graduate student...