Pittsburgh Yinzer Greetings, creator of Yinzer Cards and Yinzer Bars, has created a special chocolate candy bar to salute Pittsburgh’s essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Proceeds from the sales of the “Thank You” Yinzer Bar will benefit Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Foundation’s Pandemic Grant Program.
Yinzer Bar was founded by Pittsburgh comedian Jim Krenn, KDKA Radio’s Larry Richert and cartoonist Rob Rogers to support local non-profits.
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“Yinzer?” “Yinz?” I always thought the correct pronunciation was “younse.” Maybe the Pittsburgh dialect and the Central Pennsylvania dialect are different?
When I went back to college with my Colorado wife after a year away, a couple of my close friends from Picksburg came over to the house. After they left, she confessed that she hadn’t understood a word they’d said. The yinzer dialect stands alone.
Mike Corrado: Yes, as soon as you get away from the Triangle, it starts you change. In Johnstown (75 miles east) it’s pronounced, “youns”. Or “you-uns”.
George, it is the same in Altoona. Although I have to admit that it does sometimes sound like “yinz,” even there.