Being from Western Pennsylvania myself, I’m often the recipient of baffling looks from friends whenever I imitate a regional accent — people just assume I’m doing some wacky cartoon character voice. It’s even more amusing when friends of mine visit Pittsburgh and hear the accent and think they’re just encountering a succession of weird people until at some point they finally relent and realize that yes, this is actually a way people talk.
So whenever an awesome video appears online to prove to the rest of the nation that we’re not making this accent up, I obviously have to share it. This was actually shot outside Pittsburgh, but it’s a Western PA accent if I’ve ever heard one — submitted for your approval, here’s Pennsylvania’s answer to Double Rainbow Guy, the lovable Tornado Yinzer:
(thanks, Post-Gazette.com)
