Yinzer, the Glossary
Yinzer is a 20th-century term playing on the Pittsburghese second-person plural vernacular "yinz." The word is used among people who identify themselves with the city of Pittsburgh and its traditions.[1]
Table of Contents
14 relations: Barbara Johnstone, Blue-collar worker, Forbes, Grammatical person, Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Plural, Pronoun, Scotch-Irish Americans, Urban renewal, Vernacular, Western Pennsylvania English, Yinz.
- American regional nicknames
- Demographic history of the United States
- Working-class culture in Pennsylvania
- Yinz
Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone (born March 24, 1952) is an American professor of rhetoric and linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Blue-collar worker
A blue-collar worker is a working class person who performs manual labor or skilled trades.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
Grammatical person
In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).
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Greater Pittsburgh
Greater Pittsburgh is the metropolitan area surrounding the city of Pittsburgh in Western Pennsylvania, United States.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
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Plural
The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.
Pronoun
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.
Scotch-Irish Americans
Scotch-Irish Americans (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of primarily Ulster Scots people who emigrated from Ulster (Ireland's northernmost province) to the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Urban renewal
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.
Vernacular
Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified, institutional, literary, or formal.
Western Pennsylvania English
Western Pennsylvania English, known more narrowly as Pittsburgh English or popularly as Pittsburghese, is a dialect of American English native primarily to the western half of Pennsylvania, centered on the city of Pittsburgh, but potentially appearing in some speakers as far north as Erie County, as far west as Youngstown, Ohio, and as far south as Clarksburg, West Virginia. Yinzer and western Pennsylvania English are Culture of Pittsburgh and working-class culture in Pennsylvania.
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Yinz
Yinz (see below for other spellings) is a second-person plural pronoun used mainly in Western Pennsylvania English. Yinzer and Yinz are Culture of Pittsburgh.
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See also
American regional nicknames
- Bonackers
- Boomers (Oklahoma settlers)
- Cheesehead
- Coastie
- Florida cracker
- Georgia cracker
- Hillbilly
- Hoosier
- Jayhawker
- List of demonyms for US states and territories
- Melonheads
- Michigander
- Nutmegger
- Okie
- Piney (Pine Barrens resident)
- Redneck
- Sooners
- Swamp Yankee
- Tar Heel
- Tejanos
- Texians
- Tuckahoes and Cohees
- Yankee
- Yinzer
- Yooper
Demographic history of the United States
- Black flight
- Cherokee descent
- Conestoga wagon
- Covered wagon
- Demographic history of Detroit
- Demographic history of the United States
- Demographics of Hispanic and Latino Americans
- Depopulation of the Great Plains
- Educational attainment in the United States
- Historical racial and ethnic demographics of the United States
- History of immigration to the United States
- List of largest cities of U.S. states and territories by historical population
- List of most populous cities in the United States by decade
- Mean center of the United States population
- Median center of the United States population
- National Historical Geographic Information System
- Native American identity in the United States
- Northeastern United States
- Okie
- Second Great Migration (African American)
- Studies in American Demography
- Will it play in Peoria?
- Yinzer
Working-class culture in Pennsylvania
- 119 South Second Street, Newport, PA
- 15 South Second Street, Newport, PA
- 20 South Second Street, Newport, PA
- 51 South Second Street, Newport, PA
- Beefsteak (banquet)
- Indentured servitude in Pennsylvania
- Newport Historic District (Newport, Pennsylvania)
- Philadelphia English
- Pittsburgh toilet
- Western Pennsylvania English
- Yinzer