Sunday, February 12, 2006

More on What to Call Pittsburghers

My last post provoked some excellent, thoughtful comments, and I thank everyone who chimed in. I'm not persuaded that my original use of "Yinzer" was classist, but I am persuaded that the term is a pretty complicated thing. It would have been wiser not to use it in the first place, and I won't use it in the future.

Continued conversation is welcome.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

First, any regular reader of this board should understand that there was not the slightest attempt at elistism on the author's part in using the phrase "yinzers." It just isn't a term that most long-time Pittsburghers remember hearing until relatively recently, that's all. People who use that phrase strike me as similar to a new local anchor from out of town who mispronounces North Versailles (or, frankly, we are the ones probably mispronoucing it!). Nevertheless, a fun topic. The underlying issue of perhaps greater interest is this nagging self-image problem we've still got, that gets us prickly about little things of this nature.