Pittsburghese Expertise: Dropping "To Be" - The Glassblock
I'm not from Pittsburg and I've never even been there so this was surprising news to me. I had to google to understand the tweet.
i'm from the midwest and this seems like a very normal way to write an abbreviated note
I'm from Pittsburgh and I've never heard of this lol. I know we've retained a lot of Old English words (eg https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/creek#English). Wish this had more references.
This is pretty normal shorthand. Never heard about it being associated with Pittsburgh. I guess "zipper needs replacing" might be a bit more common? (or at least sounds a bit more natural to my ears).
You're all reading it wrong. The zipper used to have specific needs, but now it needs other things
