Results for “Yat dialect”

The thick New Orleans accent — and the people who carry it.

The whole bundle of New Orleans pronunciations and grammar — 'where y'at?'

An exclamation of shock at a big or attractive backside — basically 'god damn' for a curvy figure.

A newt — old dialect word still alive in Wales.

To squat, crouch or hunker down — Welsh and West Country dialect.

To talk loudly, chatter, or mouth off — Welsh and Midlands dialect.

Yat for sidewalk.

Yat pronunciation of 'toilet,' straight outta New Orleans.

Yat for the kitchen sink.

Emphatic New Orleans agreement — the canonical Yat affirmation.

Yat pronunciation of 'oil' — cooking oil, motor oil, any oil.

Oysters, in the thick Yat accent of working-class New Orleans.

To boil — Yat pronunciation, as in crawfish berl.

Variant Yat spelling of 'oysters' — same word as ersters.

Sausage — Yat pronunciation, roughly SAH-sage.

"You all" — the Pittsburgh second-person plural, a hallmark of the local dialect.