[fredfoobar42]

These articles on "jawn" always miss the use of "the jawn" which works in a manner similar to saying something is "the shit." In other words, the phrase "That jawn is the jawn" is a valid sentence, meaning "That thing is the best."

Stuff like this is why I think "jawn" is the fuckin' jawn.

[rubyfan]

I met a guy from Philly who over used "the jawn" so much we started calling him John. He was also often caught uttering phrases like "I'm from Philly yo"

[chjohasbrouck]

I once played chess against a guy who used this word for just about everything. He made his move while I wasn't watching, I turned around and asked him what he did.

"I took your jawn with my jawn." I said "which one is John?" He said "They're all jawn."

From then on, every time I spoke to him I replaced every noun with "John." Surprisingly, even without nouns, we never had much difficulty understanding each other.

[rubyfan]

Funny "I took your jawn with my jawn" is what AlphaGo said to Lee Sedol after the first match

[robbiep]

Marklar

[sgarman]

I'm from outside (1hr) of philly and didn't immediately recognize "jawn" as written in this article. I moved away about 8 years ago and I think the word has evolved quite a bit. We used to say "juant" which seems close to "joint" as the author notes. "Pass me that juant, where did you get that juant." Haven't heard it with the hard n.

[kough]

I'm also from outside the city (30 minutes) and recognized it exactly as described in the article. I've never heard it as a replacement for "the shit", though -- go figure.

[xzel]

From 5 minutes out of Philly and went to UPenn. "Jawn" is certainly used as the all purpose noun from this article and I've never heard it used as "the shit". The only other way I have heard it used for is as a code name for a certain pill as it helps obfuscate you're talking about a drug openly.

[ams6110]

Makes sense, since the "all purpose word" that came to mind as something similar was "shit" which is also another all purpose noun, as well as an adjective which can mean "good" or "bad" depending on context.