It’s good to hear that Philadelphia may have cleaned up its grammar in the intervening decades since I grew up there, but “youse/youze” was absolutely the ONLY way to say the plural “you”. It was a staple of the regional speech.
I came to post the same thing again, only to realize I posted this 6 years ago. Still hasn't been addressed. There is no single "correct" spelling of this, so all similar variants should be accepted.
If you ever visit Pittsburgh you will only ever see it spelled yinz. and you will see it on signs everywhere. I have only ever heard someone use it naturally once or twice since I moved here though.
I'm from NEPA and I typed youse and tried to spell it a few different ways. Then I re-read the question and saw the western pa part and knew it was yinz.
PA native too, transplanted to TX....scrapple is indeed the greatest food ever! my poor deprived cihldren will never know the joys of Saturday morning scrapple, pancakes, and chocolate milk!
I always enjoy going back and finding my comments from previous times I took each quiz. I may have been a little too hard on our local "everything but the oink" pig product. I know many of my fellow mid-Atlantic brethren love it. But, I still think meatloaf-like isn't really accurate - it always seemed more like sausage (bad sausage) than meatloaf to me.
All of you people who don't live in the mid-atlantic region of the United States are missing out on what scrapple tastes like. Awesome! I live in Delaware by the way :)
Scrapple has made it's way out of the Mid-Atlantic states.It is in Kentucky and probably Ohio also. Possibly thanks to the large and growing Amish and Mennonite populations.
You can't just throw away the hogshead when you butcher. There's lots of good meat left on it. We always made headcheese or souse with it, and my cousin from Pennsylvania told me to add corn meal to it to get something similar to scrapple but I never tried it. I'd like to, though.
Maybe because they are not the only school to use it...USC started using that chant around the same time, it was made famous for Marshall in a movie, I know they started using it in the late 80s, but that chant was done at my high school in the 50s which is 2 decades before Penn St used it. Countless other high schools also have claim on that chant, it isn't original to PSU.
Since many believe that yinz/yunz/younz is actually a bastardization of young'uns I think that any spelling with "ou" or "u" should be acceptable. For that matter, any spelling with "s" or a "z" should be accepted. Its a visual representation of a spoken word and therefore doesn't actually have a correct spelling.
Pittsburgh seems to have only really embraced the yinz spelling. You can find it on shirts, signs, mugs, everywhere in the city, but it is always y-i-n-z.
I feel like that would be unfair. I'm a State College native who goes to Penn State, and "University Park" really only refers to the section of town that the campus sits on. No one around here would refer to University Park as its own "city."
If you know the minutiae of University Park, you know State College as well.Lots of colleges have separate towns for a mailing address even though they are completely surrounded by a proper city. Notre Dame technically isn't in South Bend, but Notre Dame. Yet the people who know that know it's in South Bend.
I L'ed OL when I saw that typing the first 3 letters of one of the rivers gave it to me. I get it, though. It's what people call it, and what else would I be trying to type?
When I read the mountain range beginning with P clue I was reminded of romantic resorts for honeymoons. Every bridal magazine in the '60s had dozens of ads for hotels with pink, heart-shaped tubs for two with dewey-eyed couples looking longingly at each other while drinking champagne. Is it still marketed as a honeymoon destination?
I'm a descendent of Joseph Johns, founder of Johnstown. He was Amish (the Amish weren't quite so rural back in the early 1800s). The flood was caused by a poorly maintained dam. The ensuing lawsuits led to lasting changes in US liability law.
And twendesasa, I have never heard people referred to as Yinzers.
Hey, try the Pittsburgh Translator Quiz
On a side note, great quiz!