re: #177 PhillyPretzel

In Philly we have a street named Olney. Practically every person who comes to the city for the first time mispronounces it. In Philly we natives say “al knee.”

re: #178 makeitstop

I grew up in Bucks County, but a lot of my family grew up in the Centralia area so I got the yinz and other weirdness.

I went to Philly in ‘76 for the big bicentennial celebration. We had some college friends from Philly and Jersey we hung out with.

It took a little time to get used to their speech for us Ohioans. First impression was they were faster and a little higher pitched.

And they were different from the Pittsburgh and Erie art students I met in college.

Even Ohio has three forms of dialect. Always amazed me that a couple hundred miles can change language use and speech styles.