Heynabonics

[ScottACNohea]

@kazoopilot Quite insightful to know. It's a lot of the German influence...

[vfighter12]

Mix this and italian and u get jessup

[completesilliness]

its more like "aina" and we aren't all Polish either....

[shutdafup]

It's funny cause it's true LOL

[SuperStrongGirl]

It's funny how accurate this is. My mom was almost crying with laughter.

[yeahtoast2011]

I like in Shamokin, and when I hear someone talking like this I just say "what?" even if I can understand them :)

[cntryboycan]

I got a F on a speech in a college public speaking class because of my NEPA enunciation....

[pencilcaseize]

this isnt all of NEPA...just a few select places...SCRANTON being one of them. lol.

[TheBloodyHoliday]

in central pa we say imma goda tha ster lol and if we ask if you someone ate already it said like... youns eat lol its not to much different and heyna were i live means like.. hey now so you say, heyna wer you think you be gone neh

[marilyninfla]

Oy yezzie! is that cat ever! heyna!

[FMKirbyVision]

Hey, paula poundstone talks like us! Check out her customized TV Spot she made for her upcoming appearance at the Kirby Center on October 14th!

[FMKirbyVision]

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[cnot56]

that guy is yooge

[RogueGuitar13]

Ok soyerville isn't right... the majority of us say swearsville

[dblueize]

This is hilarious!



[MsPysanky]

Hey! There's my friend Jack playing the clarinet.

"Yoo Hoo! Jack...I'm on the internets having a cupla too tre, dem doze beirs. Come oder lader an' I'll madke tu a sandmichz."

Henya...to the Core, Baby!!!!

[HumanAlein100000]

I am from NEPA and I do not say "ta","Mayan" "Youse" or "Henya" for some reason.

[duke0219]

@HumanAlein100000 You must be from Bradford County or something...

[HumanAlein100000]

@duke0219 No Lakawana County.

[X0LYNNIE9210X]

hahaha I'm from Dunmore & this is dead on! My entire family & friends talk like this..for someone to say they never heard anyone talk like this...they need to get out more!!! I love the party about T"H"roop..great video Heyna or no? bahahaha!

[hlacomis96]

Oh, and we don't say the "t" in "what," and "ing" turns to "in." It's like "Wadaya doin' tonight?"

[pps554]

what i love most about this is people from the area who watch this and are still in denial about the fact that they actually talk like this.

[Caitlin09121988]

Thumbs up if you're from PA and talk like this :)

[KittyNiKat]

THIS IS SO LEGITIMATE, I'm from nepa, like the wilkes-barre scranton area, and this is the way we pretty much speak without thinking about it

[44ilikepurpleturtles]

I'm from south-central PA. round here almost all of us are german (i even speak german ) we talk really similar, but it's amazing the differences because it not like you are super far away. here in Amish-land we say wuder(water) chust (just) and say things like schmutzig (dirty) and doplich (clumsy) and we eat lots of Hogmal (pig's stomach filled with potatoes ) and saurkraut! oh and btw Lancaster (the county) is pronounced Lankister!! danke :)

[BumbelzBee]

@44ilikepurpleturtles lmao wuder is what people from jersey say. So you just made your self look more like a shoobie haha :P

[MrNikkie12]

Laughed my 'duppa' off and shared with all my friends down south-some want to learn other local pronunciations- like That's gonna hide a Southern accent! LOL!

Has anyone else heard of this Very limited regional quirk of calling peppers 'mangos'? Where the heck did That come from?? Last, but not least, don't forget 'up the line' or 'down the line' (Laurel)!

Been out & about in the world, but still, seriously, 'there's no place like home'!

[rkojfac]

i'm from nepa.. i actually live in one of the towns he says. i don't know if i should be insulted or laugh at this. :)

[tomatooverlord]

A) Ow my ears.

B) They used the definition of a homonym to define "synonym", ow my intellect.

[xAndrewDx]

My roommate is from westers pa and I'm from NEPA, he didnt believe me when I told him about how we talk, but after watching this, he aquired it!

[B17shoota]

i love pa accents. you got you northeastern. then theres your philly accent. then western pa/ pitt accent/ and your central pa accents

[domaug]

dis a good vidjo, heyna or no?

[owtenur]

Maybe I completely lost touch after moving from area, but I certainly don't speak like anything even remotely resembling these examples... Nor does anyone I've kept in touch with. A more silent T is common for some perhaps, but nothing to this extreme.

[sozark30]

I moved away from nepa recently to go to school, i was only there three days and they knew i was from the valley. lol. my friends get a kick out how i say mine.

[ICanStopYourHeart]

this video is deffinately right on the money heyna

[DerrickRay1976]

that's a big 10-4 on the heyna haha

[Cozyspell]

I'm pretty sure "heyna" stemmed from the phrase "ain't it". Anyways, Northeastern Pennsylvanian is a legitimate dialect of American English, if anyone is wondering...

[jOWNZin22]

@Cozyspell hey now.

[Philly4Life1818]

I love how no one picked up on the fact that he misused the terms "synonym" and "homophone"

Homophones look/sound alike but have different meanings, such as tree wiseman and tree in da ground.

Synonyms are words that look/sound completely different but have similar meanings, such as "heyna" and "agreed"

Not Mention: Battrees, Baydin suit, melk, and extreme emphasis on the last word in a sentence, mainly questions (I didn't even know I did that one until I moved to philly).

[oldslim100]

Sound's like Nanticoke to me.

[oldslim100]

@oldslim100 Heyna

[55nepa]

love it henya,henya,henya i'm from wilkes-barre pennsylvania!!!

[442crazy]

OMG! I couldn't stop laughing when I saw this for the first time. This is dead on. Don't forget about when giving directions on the west side, everything is on "the ave" ie: you go to the ave and make a right. lol.

[BigSonicGuy]

Ahhh Wilkes-Barre, I miss you!

[LacieAmaiKoi]

How about how different people pronounce Wilkes-Barre?

[bsman44]

im from the area and i love when people talked about "goin up da eynon" lol

[MwahIt5Hayylzz64]

Right on the money, heyna or no? (: <3 Gotta love dem Heynabonics. Dis would be da perfect class in school. :P I'd pass, easily.

[Falcons8455]

lol from eastern PA and i do this

[Brian0957]

I must have watched this video a million times & it still cracks me up!!!! 38 years old & I lived in NEPA all 38 of those years!!!

[oldslim100]

I'm from Nanticoke, this is right on the money.

[DannyPhantom3599]

Oi...I live in Scranton PA...I am a tad bit offended by this, but I do have to admit that the pronounciation for some words is right on. I don't talk like I am from this area because I use proper English and I really don't like talking like an "uneducated" person...though this is NOT the case for a good portion of the area's good people...hence the quotation marks. That is just part of my "thing" though, and it certainly doesn't make me any "better" than anyone else. I am proud of my city.

~LG~

[mrunconventional]

@DannyPhantom3599 - It's humor.... geeze.

[cookdrums]

Scranton to a T

[AlessandroVolta1]

From Frackville and Shenandoah (Chendo) all the way up to at least Dunmore, this is the language. I love it. Makes me hungry for Halushki.

[MrPsububba95]

what about goin to the diner for a sangwitch or a hodog

[CourtneyKangaroo]

OMG!!! He's dead on!!! I'm from Harrisburg and thats exactly how I say things...especially the did you eat part hahaha

[PANTHERTANK100]

no matter how many times i see this i still crack up

[MrPsububba95]

you make it sound like we are a bunch of idiot drunks mann knock it off its just the way we alk

[442crazy]

@MrPsububba95 Well, there are a lot ofidiot drunks in the area!

[Kai7789]

oh god i do talk like this hahahah

[kittykavanaugh]

He forgot about "heyna er no"!

[kittykavanaugh]

Trust me, dis is accurate!

[LissieF]

It's scary how spot on this is but damn funny too!

[makeghandi]

I have lived in NEPA all my life and I honestly do not speak like this even remotely.

[yeahtoast2011]

@makeghandi Yeah, same here. What's wrong with us?

[guitargodalec]

Dont watch Scranton City Council you lose brain cells faster than if you watch the Jersey Shore

[makeghandi]

@guitargodalec what, you mean SCRAN'on

[bucklaw]

Polka, Polka, Polka. Troop, Eynon Drug, Bighampton.

[pflqr]

lmao., I grew up in the mid-valley and i lost my nepa accent, but this is DEAD ON!!!

hilarious. i tink tree tings that are vital to a good meal ketchup, salt and pepper.

[Cecilia28602]

Tree = the number of wisemen who went to see the Baby Jesus.  LOL

[DeidraDistress]

I live in Altoona PA and I do not speak like that at all. Maybe it's true for some but definitely not me or any of my friends or family. WRONG!

[Choson4eva]

@DeidraDistress

Noone is saying that everyone in the area speaks with that accent, but this is the accent that apparently defines North-East PA. It's normal for people to live in an area but not have the local accent.

[DeidraDistress]

@Choson4eva I don't even really know people who talk like that. I was born and raised here so if it was how most talked I'm sure I would have also.

[jeffas93]

@Choson4eva no no no. it's western PA

[13laganaa]

half of wut he said we use the other half we dont

[Kennyrulez11]

I don't say Heyna. Everything else is fine.

[DL2045]

SO TRUE!!

[NanoShorts]

"You don't need the isn't it, IT'S BUILT RIGHT INTO THE HEYNA!!!" ha...hilarious 3:41

[TheDiamondSea]

I've lived in NEPA all my life and I've never heard anyone say "heyna." I've never even heard OF it until maybe a month ago. "Couple two tree" is something that I've only heard people say as a joke. "Yous" is kind of hard to pinpoint. I have heard people in the area say it, but most people will tell you that it's WAY more of a Philly/South Jersey thing than NEPA. If anybody talks like this even slightly, it may be the old folks. They say things like "tuesdee" instead of "tuesday."

[Val0n]

@TheDiamondSea my mom says tuesdee......... lol

[ActorJeremyS]

@TheDiamondSea All you need to do is watch interviews of older folk 55+ on the local news and you'll hear it in all its horror. The younger people don't talk like this anymore really.

[Val0n]

damn, i say jeet - did you eat?, and TA!! ROFLROFL daaamn aaaaaaaaaand i live like 20 minutes from nanticoke. and me and my friends were saying doopa the other dayy hahahahaha

[avarn82]

ahahahaahahhaah older people in Pennsylvania without a doubt talk like this

[meatloaf505]

yous could be doin something else, LIKE GETTIN A BEER! lol 0:56

[NanoShorts]

@meatloaf505 my favorite part too haha

[OHAYSARAH]

Oh my God! I used to say that all the time when I was a waitress. I'd walk to the table and say "Hey guys, I'm Sarah and I'll be takin' care of youse tonight. Whadda youse want to drink?"

[idigghx]

Maybe language of the Wyoming Valley. Every area has it's own dialect. The northern's can't understand the coal crackers, who can't understand the ones from the rust belt. Oy!

[WorldsBiggestGleek]

Not even funny how true this is! My "favorite" Pennsylvanian word is "Myan"! XD

[Laughosity]

i'm going to enter a video into the CFP. "The Stolen Chocolate Bar"!

[SDCisLOVE]

@loxandbagels no its rude to say people are uneducated for using local terms, this video was made in fun, not to have assholes come insult us

[ndallmer]

I have family Naticoke, Old Forge, and I could never understand "Heyna" (henna). This cleared things up completely! LOL! What a great inside joke!

Thanks

[djjava303]

I've lived here for ages...never heard heyna..i've heard inn'it as a contraction for isn't it. oh and you forgot yinz :D oh and crick instead of creek

[Tedr0]

isn't yinz more of a pittsburgh thing?

[chuckboyle]

Hasn't shown up on the OFFICE heyna?

[krazykre23]

LOL I live in the Lehigh Valley and I've never heard heyna before! People here usually just say "aint it?" or "huh?"at the end of their sentences. Heyna's a good one :)

[cygnus8595]

@krazykre23 I'm from Hazleton. Heyna's more of a Scranton/W-B thing. The only person I ever heard say anything similar was my grandfather, who said "henna," not "heyna." No one else I knew said it, and some of them had pretty thick accents. I worked in Scranton briefly and they ALL said "heyna."

[Val0n]

@cygnus8595 hahahahahaha

[HelenaGray]

I like how they play the chicken dance at the beginning :)

[luckykkkmemory]

im from pa this is very true lol blair county

[commonman777]

He's got it wrong, It's up da pike or down da line.

[UtubePhuckinSux]

I've never met ANYBODY who talked like this, but then again I live in Wayne county

[stompingbabies]

i live in nanticoke and we do say it like nannycoke

[stompingbabies]

some of this is true but this is funny

[PaulieFetz]

Ugh, I had a class in that room, good ol' Miseri U haha. And yes, lots of people talk like that. Being a Jersey boy, I understood none of it.

[miguelxenri]

LMAO XD I am from the Hazelton area, I used to talk exactly like this when I was a kid.

[enitrammoke]

I am from the Pocono's and we do not talk like this. The only thing I can relate is the Throop thing.

[Robelli1717]

im from allentown, we dont talk like that.

[KyraWolf]

@Robelli1717 If you went more towards Scranton/Nanticoke/Wilkes-Barr­e, you would hear all this.

[xNEONxDAGGERx]

Im from scranton and we kinda talk like this. My grampa sounds like this guy xD

[thading]

most of my family is from the Avoca Pittston area and the older ones still speak that way. altho i had a college roommate from Jermyn and that farm boy at his young age had it strong

[GuitarManCN]

hahahaha! the guy at 1:32 is just drawing

[SharpGelpi]

Years ago was visiting NEPA and pulled up to WB exit of turnpike with my pet ferret on the passenger seat. The toll taker turned to his co-woker and said " Hey Joe, come look at dis ting here" I knew I was back in Heyna country.

[emeraldeyez13]

Makes me miss Maroni's. Youse guys have the best Tray of pizza

[funktron4]

There's so much to comment on and so few words allowed in the You Tube comments section. Here goes:

1) "Heyna?" actually started life as "Ain't It?" (as in "Dat carz really smashed up, Heyna?") but is now much a more generic "Don't you agree?" (as in "Let's go up da lake and get a coupla, two-tree six packs and sit where Hansons used ta be and drinkem, heyna?").

Also, Swoyersville can be "Swoyersville" or "Swoyerville." The old timers drop the "s" but I prefer leaving it in! Heyna?

[bambiesue]

It makes me home sick for Nanicoke. We DO talk like dat! heyna!

[riana1787]

haha, so true!

[brustdiesel]

The true connoisseur of Heynabonics, as I have been told, uses "heyna-butter-no" in place of "heyna".

[LilSunshine371]

hahah It's so true, heyna?

[Bravo2016]

NEPA is comprised of more than JUST Wilkes-Barre. I grew up in Stroudsburg, and have lived in Southern Wayne County for many years now. I have rarely heard anyone speak like this - from Stroudsburg to Scranton, no one has this dialect.

There are a few folks towards WB that still speak with this dialect, but again - NEPA is more than just Wilkes-Barre.

[LittleMissPollux]

seriously? i just moved back to Scranton and my WHOLE FAMILY talks like this. everyone. and really, all you need to do is watch a few nights of WNEP news with Talkback 16 and you'll hear a wide variety of NEPA accents that sound a lot like this. i had assumed they were talking about Scranton (not WB), due to the mention of local access City Council meetings, which are a big hit with the locals. including my little Polish grandma. ;)

[0wner517]

lol its true :)

[TheFrankGomez]

They left out so much unfortunately. There needs to be an advanced course.

What do youse do when your clothes is dirty?

WARSH dem!

How do you order a pizza? I'll take a TRAY.

And a sandwich on a long roll is a HOAGIE.

And it's SODA, not pop.

Anybody wanna go down ta Eynon for a had dag and a cup a caffee?

I had a lot of fun learning how to order food again while living in FL and CA after being born and raised in NEPA.

Overall, EXCELLENT video, heyna?

[UtubePhuckinSux]

I'm pretty sure its SODA most everywhere lol

[DeidraDistress]

@UtubePhuckinSux I'm from Altoona and I say pop.

[peanutblondie]

I lived in NEPA for 25 years. This video is right on the money. Absolutely hysterical!

[SethoMarkus]

@peanutblondie I've lived in NEPA for 21 years (my entire life) and never heard anyone talk like this. The closest I ever found was Scranton, PA. This is closer to a Manhattan or Long Island accent if you ask me...

[KtotheY77]

I don't know anyone who talks like that and I'm from around there haha.

[vwguy101]

There are a few of us left, gotta look for them these days, I guess.

[DeidraDistress]

@KtotheY77 How the heck did this comment receive enough negative votes to be hidden? Weird!

[vwguy101]

@ Alisa2006.

I an SO happy for you, not having to sound like all us poor, uneducated "Vally People" speaking our native dialect. Since I grew up in S. Wilkes-Barre and Nanticoke, and speak like that whenever I'm among friends and family, I should throw out my degree, heyna?

Don't arbitrarily judge someone, or a group of people because they don't speak in a way you want them to sound, it shows your prejudice, immaturity and ignorance..

[happysugarbabe]

i pondered upon this video- I just did a search on "Pennsylvania". i used to live in PottsVL- "Pottsville" area.

(we say it "Potts-vl"- ) how R youse guys up thr anyways?? I live in Dallas TX now- YOUSE GUYS ARE REAL FUNNY!

[ThomasFan247]

I live close to here (where it was filmed.I do live in NEPA).

[chriscola7]

Haha I live in NEPA (actuall right near where this was filmed, and I know the teacher and a few other people in it)

People around here talk exactly like that hahaaha.

[jimazee]

JOE: I swear I herdum sayin he was gunna take a dip in da lacky.....djew?

STASH: No, I dint. Didja really hearim sayin dat?

NINO: Wow man, da Lackys puhlooted... big time.

[itsnicole899]

my-in (:

[kkwuzhere67]

and what ever happened to "float your fannie in the susquehannie"? :)

[kkwuzhere67]

i say "melk" and "pellow" a lot. hahaha

gotta love nepa

[RitchWatch]

Youse made me laugh - & tank God I'm still here.

[DistinctlyBenign]

We watched this in class today, heyna?

[zefrankable]

It surely made me laugh, and thank God I left!!!!

[Larryv56]

Perfect. Also: Waz Doin', Waz Up, Nottin' Much, & Youse Guys.

[Alisa2oo6]

I think this is hilarious, but totally exagerated. Maybe it used to be that bad, but it's not anymore. My grandparents kind've talked like that, my parents a little bit, but I don't really say any of those things. I think it's getting phased out through the generations.

[SDCisLOVE]

you must not get out much EVERYONE i know says this stuff

[Alisa2oo6]

No, it's just that the people I talk to are educated and know how to speak, unlike the people you must talk to.

[SDCisLOVE]

talkin like tht doesnt mean un educated.. one of the ppl io know that talks like that is in harvard now.... so yeah shove your rude judgements up your ass

[Alisa2oo6]

Oh, ok. I must just be you then.

P.S. I wouldn't have had to make a rude judgement if you didn't make one first. : )

[erk13z]

@SDCisLOVE I do agree with your comment, but attending Harvard doesn't nessecarily mean you are educated either. People by there way in all the time. LOL :)

[mrunconventional]

@SDCisLOVE - Some of the most idiotic people around are college educated. Seems the more "educated" people are the more dumbed down they are.

[JimzFliks]

@SDCisLOVE - Don't you mean up your duppa?

[IxLovexJakexG]

there's no place like home, heyna?

[MarchingxxSpartan]

haha, I saw these guys at Misrercordia and I've never laughed so hard. I'm 15 and I talk like this..I think its time to get out of the valley. Heyna? lmao.

[OmgJabbers94]

until this video, i hadnt realized how many people i live around actually speak heynabonics

[DanceTransylvania]

Hahahahaha, oh this is so true.

[Redrider847]

Forgot about the currency exchange in NEPA.

A BUCK TWO EIGHTY!

[CarrionBag]

It was a Buck Tree Eighty in my household!

[postitnoteloveletter]

LMAO. Go NEPA!

[msdragonz]

Er wot?...lol...there are a lot of underground 'bonics too.....sangwich, cawfee....

Gotta love it!

[FragilexCapricorn]

in carbondale we've tacked an additional "heyna.. er no?" onto Heyna.

i guess we forgot about the syllable economy.

[johnosplatzz]

No, it's not Plymouth, in Heynabonics it's Plimmitt! Half the time, heyna is hennett.

[vwguy101]

I grew up near Wilkes-Barre and yes, I do speak like that, for the most part, unless I am talking to out of towners. I don't want to confuse them too much! :3

[XxDemonFire14xX]

I live in Taylor this video is so correct (but more importantly funny)!

[ThewlisianGirl]

haha. i live in throop. this video is so right. xD

[Riversidevikes08]

i live in taylor wow this shit is funny

[xlistentothethunder0]

hahaha; i love this. its so true(:

[blefchak]

what about "god love ya"?

[KATifabulous]

lmao, i live in dickson city, and this was exactly right about everything. no lie.

[Ultradeth5]

i believe the alcohol because they're is so many beer distributors, but i never say heyna, but i have heard it and its weird casue i never knew what it meant and i never really heard it till like last year, my friends dad says it and 2 of my friends say it, but besides that i never hear it

[sheajr]

Comeing from scranton wattago but ya forgot to mentiona a couple to tree things like corps houses,heyna or no and ta church summer picnics

[hiya4011]

I abs. adore this video!

[jedrogal]

was this filmed in hazleton? i saw my middle school drama teacher in it...i grew up mostly in hazleton

[xnefarious06x]

I heard it was filmed at Misericordia, but I'm not 100% sure.

[afreshfish12788]

This video really helps me explain to everyone else what the people of the Scranton area are like. Thanks for making my life easier!

[ratpackdeb]

Believe me when I tell you that not all of us are illiterate idiots.

[baileysmom1116]

I'm guilty of most of them.

[kresge11]

They forgot bat-tree instead of battery...

[royhobbs38]

jessup pa. is the reason for this video

You're absolutely right. hah