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Well it seems you have Philly well covered and that's where I've lived since I was 4yrs old, so that's more than the last 50 years. Whenever I travel people still tell me I have a "mild" Philly accent. I'm sure it used to be a lot stronger of an accent. After graduating from college, moving downtown and starting to meet more people from out of the neighborhood, many of my various speech eccentricities were being pointed out often enough that I became conscious of wanting to change. I found that I was using sloppy speech too often. Though I could write in perfect grammar, I didn't usually speak that way. Two of my favorite Philly slangish terms are "yous" and "igles", and the misuse of "seen" instead of "saw".
So I don't know about yous guys but how do ya think the Igles will be this year? I seen them practice and they look pretty good.
Before we were married, my dear first wife gave me a birthday present of a couple of personal artifacts she made for me; one was an "eye seen" which related to my misuse of "I seen".
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