It shows up when “yinz” slips out without thinking, when you know a parking chair is not really a suggestion, and when “chipped ham” means chipped, not sliced. It is fries on a salad, Isaly’s, black and gold on game day, and the shared frustration of watching traffic inexplicably slow down before a tunnel.
This one is for the Pittsburgh natives who eventually traded Western Pennsylvania for the Mojave and built a life in Las Vegas. The winters got easier and the vocabulary probably never changed.
You can live 2,000 miles away and still know exactly what someone means when they ask, “Jeet jet?”
