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I grew up 10 minutes from Philadelphia, and I distinctively remember kids I know starting to say jawn in the mid 90s. I was like wait are you saying joint, as

I grew up 10 minutes from Philadelphia, and I distinctively remember kids I know starting to say jawn in the mid 90s. I was like wait are you saying joint, as in a spike lee joint? and they were like no it's jawn. Around the same time everyone changed the emphasized word in the phrase "yeah it is" when in agreement. More recently it reminds me how people switched to "all the sudden" all of a sudden.

gxqoz 4y ago
Yeah I feel everyone around me who used this word added a bit of a "t" sound to the end. It wasn't until I was an adult I saw it spelled out like "jawn".
- xg15 4y ago
  Maybe the opposite of jawn is jawn't?
  - smcl 4y ago
    Interestingly a "jaunt" is British English (or maybe just Scots?) for a little walk, like a stroll
xg15 4y ago
> More recently it reminds me how people switched to "all the sudden" all of a sudden. ...and as a non-native english speaker, I just learned that "all of a sudden" is slang and not just a normal part of the language. Wow!
- kencausey 4y ago
  I may be wrong but I think rather than 'slang' the correct word would be 'idiom'. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idiom https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idiom
- gerdesj 4y ago
  "all of a sudden" is probably ubiquitous in english and so whilst it is an idiom, it is a standard idiom!
- tomcam 4y ago
  "all of a sudden" is definitely a standard idiom. In fact: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%22all%20of%20a%20sudden%22,%22all%20a%20sudden%22 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%22all%20o...
googlryas 4y ago
I was raised in south jersey, about 30m from Philly, and I remember exactly when jawn hit our little town, right around Y2K. I was in 9th grade at the time, and I remember it being like an arms race where people were throwing jawns out at every little thing, regardless of necessity. I also remember it pissed off a couple of the "cool kids" who were actively trying to coin "gwat" with the other students. It had some legs at first, but jawn came along and everyone forgot gwat.
- merolish 4y ago
  Huh, I grew up in Cherry Hill and graduated HS in 2000, guess we missed it because I didn't learn about the term until years later.
- ry4nolson 4y ago
  that's so fetch!
  - djbusby 4y ago
    Stop trying to make fetch happen.
    - tomcam 4y ago
      that's so moosh of you
      - TheMightyLlama 4y ago
        Nah, safe.
        smcl 4y ago
        I was visiting Birmingham when "safe" was taking off in England (2006?) but hadn't reached Scotland yet. Was talking to a random guy in a bar, and I couldn't understand why he was so insistent that Birmingham was "safe"

gxqoz 4y ago

Yeah I feel everyone around me who used this word added a bit of a "t" sound to the end. It wasn't until I was an adult I saw it spelled out like "jawn".

xg15 4y ago
Maybe the opposite of jawn is jawn't?
- smcl 4y ago
  Interestingly a "jaunt" is British English (or maybe just Scots?) for a little walk, like a stroll

xg15 4y ago

> More recently it reminds me how people switched to "all the sudden" all of a sudden. ...and as a non-native english speaker, I just learned that "all of a sudden" is slang and not just a normal part of the language. Wow!

kencausey 4y ago
I may be wrong but I think rather than 'slang' the correct word would be 'idiom'. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idiom https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/idiom
gerdesj 4y ago
"all of a sudden" is probably ubiquitous in english and so whilst it is an idiom, it is a standard idiom!
tomcam 4y ago
"all of a sudden" is definitely a standard idiom. In fact: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%22all%20of%20a%20sudden%22,%22all%20a%20sudden%22 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%22all%20o...

googlryas 4y ago

I was raised in south jersey, about 30m from Philly, and I remember exactly when jawn hit our little town, right around Y2K. I was in 9th grade at the time, and I remember it being like an arms race where people were throwing jawns out at every little thing, regardless of necessity. I also remember it pissed off a couple of the "cool kids" who were actively trying to coin "gwat" with the other students. It had some legs at first, but jawn came along and everyone forgot gwat.

merolish 4y ago
Huh, I grew up in Cherry Hill and graduated HS in 2000, guess we missed it because I didn't learn about the term until years later.
ry4nolson 4y ago
that's so fetch!
- djbusby 4y ago
  Stop trying to make fetch happen.
  - tomcam 4y ago
    that's so moosh of you
    - TheMightyLlama 4y ago
      Nah, safe.
      - smcl 4y ago
        I was visiting Birmingham when "safe" was taking off in England (2006?) but hadn't reached Scotland yet. Was talking to a random guy in a bar, and I couldn't understand why he was so insistent that Birmingham was "safe"