Introduction to American Dialects | Southern Drawl | Tawking the Tawk in Noo Yawk | New England's Wicked Good Accent
Philly Talk and Pittsburghese | The Midwestern 'Non-Accent' | Da Chicago Dialect and the Northern Cities Vowel Shift

Pennsylvania , USA has a long and storied history . Its two largest cities are Philadelphia and Pittsburgh , the former in the far east of the state and the latter in the far west of the state. They have developed very differently despite being only about 250 miles from each other. Linguistically, the two cities and the immediate areas around them are as different as if there was an ocean in between them.