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PHILLY TAWK
By Clark DeLeon (Columnist and bona fide native Philadelphian.)
Philadelphia is a city of proud and distinct neighborhoods, and the people who grew up in these neighborhoods often speak in a proud and unique manner. It's more than an accent, it's an attitude, or as we pronounce it, addytood. This is the way we tawk in Fluffya, you got a problem with that. Here are certain words you can master so if you ever find yourself in Philly, you can speak the native tongue:
SKOOKILL - an expressway and a river.
SENDA CIDDY - where the expressway takes you.
WOODER - the liquid stuff flowing in the river.
GAZZ - the liquid stuff that keeps taxi cabs going.
KWAWFEE - the liquid stuff that keeps cab drivers going.
ACKROST - from hereto there. Your destination could be ackrost town.
WINDAS - the roll down glass things in the car.
PURDY - the view of the Senda Ciddy skyline out the windas.
BEEYOUDEEFUL - the view of the skyline at night.
PIXTURE - the view of the skyline that comes out of a camera.
LANNICK CIDDY - the place ackrost in Jersey where you can gamble.
DOWNASHORE - where Lannick Ciddy is.
SHTREETS - what cars drive on in Senda Ciddy.
PAYMENTS - what people walk on in Senda Ciddy.
FIFF - a numbered street located between Forf and Sixt.
YO - what Fluffyans shout to friends ackrost the street.
YO, HON - what Fluffyans shout to friends of the opposite sex.
YOUSE - second person singular.
YIZ - second person plural.
YIZZLE - a contraction, as in "YIZZLE have fun in Fluffya."
WIDGES - a contraction, as in YIZZLE have even more fun if a Fluffyan goes widges to show you around town.
INNERESTIN - what many of the museums are.
LYBERRY - place where you can read upon other innerestin stuff.
BUDDER - stuff you spread on top of bread.
TAHMAYDAHS - slices that go on top of hoagies.
ACKAME - big store where you can buy budder and tahmaydahs.
NAYDIVS - people who grew up in Fluffya.
TELLUM - what you'll do when you see friends,
tellum about the way we tawk.
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