That’s PGH.
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The comedian Jim Gaffigan has a whole routine about being in Ireland and being confused that everyone was talking about a singer named Billy Joelle.
I’ve noticed this as a feature of (at least some) Irish accents. For instance, I see the name Colm and I pronounce it with one syllable. Like the word ‘coal’ with an m on the end.
The cast of Derry Girls (Hilarious, watch it) pronounce it like ‘column’
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This is a common refrain but largely false. Accents aren’t disappearing, they’re just changing, as they always have and always will.
Even ‘artificial’ accents such as what used to be called ‘Advanced Received Pronunciation’ , that particularly class-conscious, clenched jawed thing that’s now mostly mocked as hopelessly classist and comically old fashioned.
One need only listen to speeches (then Prince) Charles gave in his youth to King Charles’ current speech patterns. Or listen to the difference between him and his sons.
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I used to take cooking classes with the Canadian actor Colm Feore, whose parents immigrated from Ireland. Both names have 2 syllables. 
(I didn’t know that until I took the class with him 
. I would have said Coalm Fiori before that, not Coal-um Fior. With my southwestern Ontario accent, I don’t pronounce Colm quite like Column or Callum)
That’s a Pittsburgh thing (I never heard it until I was older and met people from Pgh). In Philly it’s “youse,” but that was strongly discouraged in my house.
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Data: ‘Day-tah’ vs. ‘datta’.
How do you pronounce ‘data’? My FIL was an early data processor which he pronounced ‘day-tah’. I hear ‘datta’ more often than ‘day-tah’ these days. Tomato, tomatoe…
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Really? Limoncello? That seems like a rather easy, non-confusing word to pronounce.
Short A, unless I’m referring the the Star Trek TNG character.
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Data is day-tuh for me, but the short a doesn’t register as weird.
What DOES (but shouldn’t) bother me is “The data is very clear…”. No. “The data ARE very clear…” Data is the plural of datum.
I am aware this is a stupid and arbitrary point. Technically, it’s one raviolo, several ravioli. One cello, a group of celli, but no one says that and you’re going to get a lot of deserved sideeye if you insist on it.
Octopi is incorrect. Octopus is Greek derived, octopi is a Latinate pluralization, Greek would be octopodes (ock-top-oh- deez) which is really fun to say.
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Be careful, or you’re gonna start me on a rant about “very unique.”
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Comma territory is next, followed by the swallowed scream of hearing nuclear being pronounced as nucular.
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Lots of Greeks drop the s. Octapodi
Yep - my late grandfather (father’s father) was from Massachusetts, and we always got a giggle out of him asking for the mashed badaydahs.
das ist ein jimlet!
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my dad was born/raised in Brooklyn.
70+ years later I was still helping him with his boat batrees…
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Confusing “me” and “I,” or “he” and “him,” plus the rampant misuse of ‘myself’ is my biggest pet peeve bc people do it all the fucking time. Everywhere.
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“Me and my girlfriend…” 
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I grabbed a few bc my PIC and I have taken to adding random Rs to words, but def inspired by Warshington.
I like playing with langwich — the ridonkulous spelling of the English language makes that particularly easy.
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German has a wonderful saying that’ll hammer that rule into your head almost immediately:
“Der Dumme / Esel nennt sich immer selbst zuerst,” meaning “the ass always mentions themselves first.”
So, it’s “my friends and I” vs. “me and my friends.” You’re also a subject in that sentence, not an object, which the German saying solves as well.
I realize this might just be one of Ze Most Difficult Thing to follow or understand, at least it would appear so from my 20+ years of suffering 
I correct the TV 
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