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How to speak proper Philadelphian – Lesson #1
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Ryan Miscavage
Jan 25, 2018
1. Tap Mac
What’s an ATM? Never heard of it.
2. Pock-A-Book
Your grandmother passed this on to you.
3. Crowns
The 64 pack was the best.
4. ‘Lantic Siddy
Wanna go down the shore? Maybe we can play the slots while were there.
5. Wooder Ice
This is surely one of the foods on the Philly food pyramid.
6. Slice-ah-plain
I like to get mine from Lorenzo’s or Rosa’s.
7. Jimmies
No ice cream cone is complete without them.
8. Flarda
It seems like everyone in Philly makes a home here at some point.
9. Senner Siddy
Downtown doesn’t exist here.
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