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Git aht! Pittsburgh named the most disliked accent

Pittsburghese is also the least trustworthy and least sexy

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Yinz can't be serious?!

A new study from language learning platform Preply recently surveyed 1,000 American to find out which accents are the best, worst, sexiest, annoying and more.


It was pretty brutal for Pittsburgh and the Pittsburghese accent.

Preply's study shows Pittsburghers has the most disliked accent by other Americans, the least trustworthy accent and the least sexy American accent.

To make matters worse Pittsburgh also ranked 3rd for the most annoying.

Git atta tahn!

The hate on Pittsburghese isn't new, in 2014, website Gawker ran an online tournament to find America's "ugliest accent."

Pittsburgh "won" that tournament.

So who has the best accent?

The study ranked the southern accent first at 41 percent, followed by New York with 30 percent, Midwestern with 24 percent, New Orleans at 19 percent and Southern California with 18 percent.

It wasn't all bad for Pittsburgh though. Those that speak Welsh voted Pittsburgh as their favorite American accent.

Everyone else just appears to be a jag.

You can read the report here.

Pittsburghese is also the least trustworthy and least sexy