"Pittsburgh, which seems to be the Galapagos Islands of American dialect."

michele sent me an article, complete with mp3s, about dialects in america. we are apparently the freaks of it all....
the post gazette had an article about the n@ stickers, complete with a list of links about pittsburghese

Good Web sources for Pittsburghese:

english.cmu.edu/pittsburghspeech/

www.pittsburghese.com/ (entertaining site but no longer maintained)

www.slanguage.com/pittsburgh.html

www.sesraw.com/Birdra/pitt.htm

www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/pgh/pittsburghese.html

pittsburgh.about.com/library/weekly/aa071200a.htm