Judy H wrote:Learn something new every day, eh.

Would you happen to be from Canada, or one of the Canada-adjacent states?

I grew up a stone's throw from Ontario, and after more than a decade I'm still trying to kick the "eh?" habit.

Pittsburgh is what, 50 miles from West Virginia? That's where it comes from.

I dunno kenji. Pittsburghers would deny it, I'm sure, and even Wiki locates it there.

BTW, this Wiki article is quite good. For anyone who thought dialectical variation in the US was dying, travel to Da Burgh and give a listen.

Geo

http://www.pittsburghese.com/

Great site, Das! I dint knaow 'at un.

Geo

Well, the Wiki attributes the regionalism to Scots-Irish, which are the Appalachians, essentially. My parents are yinzers. It's a very colorful and unique language, all the more interesting because it's so pervasive within the region at various social levels but still somehow confined to the area. The dialect seems to have hung in there better than in the South where I grew up. I'm shocked to meet people who claim to have been born and raised in places like Texas and Georgia these days. Sound like they are from Glendale. No so with folks from Western PA. Parts of New England and Louisiana are holding out for the better, too.

I still haven't found Waldo. I hate this game.

Geo wrote:For anyone who thought dialectical variation in the US was dying, travel to Da Burgh and give a listen.

Chicagoans need not go so far.

A ride down ta da Sout'west Side over dere by Midway Field'll do yuse.

I came across the original photo, from Life magazine: http://www.shorpy.com/node/4959?size=_original

The one at the top of the thread has been cropped and the colors altered. If you look at the larger, linked version, the people don't look quite so white and skinny. It's hard to tell, but there are definitely at least three African American men and one or two women who might be, plus several people who could be Hispanic, not to mention a few chubby figures. Also they appear to have more diversity in age than the cropped version reveals, although there still aren't any really elderly folks. I see a lot of septuagenarians and octogenarians where I shop.

No trash magazines to flip through while waiting in line? For me, that's all that makes waiting in line tolerable.

I like LAZ's picture. Now we get to see the check-patterned elephants flying over the aisles.