Hi, and welcome to my corner of the web!
Please let me introduce myself… My name is Bill. I’m a semi-retired Pittsburgh-based writer (do writers ever get to retire?).
In the past, I worked as an advertising copywriter, marketing consultant, website developer, communications project manager, webmaster for a county health department, and… I even tried my hand as a small-business owner/operator (nobody remembers Occasion Station at Station Square, but that was my wife and me (or, for the grammar snobs, my wife and I) taking a shot at creating a business together. Alas, it didn’t quite work out. But we did come up with an interesting concept or two that I hope to recover. Please stay tuned!)
I’m also a proud father, sports fanatic, amateur photographer, and unabashed promoter of Pittsburgh (and western Pennsylvania in general).
I’ve been clicking away on a keyboard on and off for the past 43 years, but I’ve been fluent in Pittsburgheze for my entire life.
If you’re not sure what Pittsburgheze is, you can find out more here and here. (Yes, I spell it with a “z” not an “s,” … just seems closer to a ‘yinz’ thing to me.)
Needless to say, Pittsburgheze is more than a dialect; it’s a way of life. When you hear Pittsburgheze (and oh boy, you recognize it), it signifies that the person speaking hails from a very unique place in this world.
While this site is named “Pittsburgheze.com,” it’s in all actuality just a fun place to house my portfolio, some photographs, and a few other pet projects. (My business lived on the internet for about 15 years as “wordshark.com,” until I sold the domain to a multi-national language therapy company based in Great Britain.)
Oh, btw, I currently have another domain for sale – PittsburghDad.com – find details here!
So, whether you’re searching for some linguistic techniques in pursuit of rhetorical knowledge, or just someone looking for a chipped ham sammich from Jynt Igle, I thank yinz for stopping by!