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[–] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

Our unique pronunciation comes from Philadelphia, where they use the word "jawn" to mean "thing." They called it "that parma jawn", meaning like "that thing from parma" but the j became a zh over time.

source: I made it up

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