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✏️ Food Editor @PhillyMag | 📺 emmy-winning host of Check, Please! Philly on @whyy and Delishtory on @pbsfood |🎙️ host of @powerdiningpod Spring ‘23
Nov 7, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Just logged into my old Mastadon account from 2018 (go Jawns Club!) and this was my last Toot! Image .@adamteterus OUR OLD MAN THING MINUTE!!!! Image
Oct 6, 2022 14 tweets 6 min read
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Philadelphia. You're using the word "jawn" WRONG.

This is going to spark some controversy, but hear me out. Because if we keep using jawn the way it's been used in recent years, we're going to lose its more nuanced meaning. 🧵🧵🧵

(photo: Asha Prihar/@billy_penn) Image The current understanding of the word jawn is that it can be used to replace any noun in a sentence.

But it is SO MUCH MORE than that.

Yes, it can be used interchangeably, but it's not meant to just replace a noun -- it's meant to EMPHASIZE that noun.
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