Yinz is synonymous with " You All " or "y'all" in the Southern United States; however, "yinz", unlike "y'all", is sometimes used without a verb (as in, "Yinz late again", or "Yinz stupid"), with the state of being verb implied. Like "y'all", yinz's place as Pittsburgh's most famous regionalism makes it both a badge of pride and a way to show Self-depreciation . For example, a group of Pittsburgh area political cheerleaders call themselves "Yinz Cheer" and an area literary magazine is '' The New Yinzer ,'' a take-off of '' The New Yorker ''. The traditional Blue Collar Pittsburgher is often referred to as a "Yinzer."
- Johnstone, B. and Danielson, A., "Pittsburghese" in the Daily Papers, 1910-1998: Historical Sources of Ideology about Variation, ''New Ways of Analyzing Variation'' Conference, October 2001.
- Johnstone, B., Bhasin, N., and Wittkowski, D., "Dahntahn" Pittsburgh: Monophthongal /aw/ and representations of localness in Southwestern Pennsylvania. ''American Speech'' 77(20):146-166.
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- Pittsburgh Speech and Society A site for non-linguists, created by Carnegie Mellon University linguist Barbara Johnstone.
- Pittsburghese.com (more humorous than scientific)
- PBS Series, "Do You Speak American?"
- The New Yinzer website
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