Today’s Daily Examiner quip comes from the New York Times, which introduced the Sunday Styles crowd to Silk City Diner — and to Philadelphia lingo that you apparently have to be 100 percent wasted to actually use:
“The jawn is a Philly word. It means ‘a good thing.’ It can be a noun, like you can say, ‘Yo, pass me that jawn’ or ‘I’m the jawn.’ ” But, he cautioned, “It is never a verb. You never say, ‘I jawned.’ ”
The Bar Car is Rocking [NY Times]
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September 25th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I can’t put my finger on just why, but for some reason I find Pressler cringe inducing.