The Philadelphia Iggles Even the boring “Jeet yet” articles ... So are ran, swam, began, am. And the sub-literate dialect word wan, as in “We wahn the war.” — Exception to the exception: can the verb ...

The Philadelphia dialect features a focused avoidance of the “th” sound, the swallowing of the L in lots of words, and wooder instead of water, among a zillion other things. In Pittsburgh ...

The Philadelphia accent has been in the news quite a bit ... up in Philadelphia don’t know that others don’t know that word,” said Muffy Siegel, a Temple University linguist who has written ...