Professor of Linguistics in the Dietrich School and co-author of the book “Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese, Scott Kiesling, was interviewed for an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Wednesday. The article “412 Kids: Should parents pass along Pittsburghese, or is it time to yank the yinz?” talks about dialects and how it’s not always a bad thing to embrace your hometown colloquialisms.