Pittsburgh smokers more inclined to say "Jagoff" than "Yinz"

So say we all. In Western Pennsylvania English, AKA Pittsburghese.

Perhaps the only feature whose distribution [throughout Western Pennsylvania] is restricted almost exclusively to the immediate vicinity of Pittsburgh is /aʊ/ monophthongization in which words such as house, down, found, and sauerkraut are sometimes pronounced with an 'ah' sound, instead of the more standard pronunciation of 'ow', rendering eye spellings such as hahs, dahn, fahnd, and sahrkraht.

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