PhillyToonUnion

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Being from Philadelphia, we say a few things that I don't hear in any other part of the country, let alone the world. Jawn (pronounced like the name John) can mean just about anything or anyone. If you like somebody's shoes, you could say "those jawns are nice," or if you're having trouble with something you could say "this jawn is pissing me off." If you're talking about a girl, it becomes jawnpiece or jawnski. We also refer to older people as oldheads, and if we're going to the beach, we say we're going down the shore (even though the Atlantic is geographically east from us). The evolution of language has always fascinated me, because with the exception of oldhead I can't figure out the roots of any of those phrases, even though I use them all the time.