PENNSYLVANIA SLANG: A recent article from pennlive.com reported a study has found that other Americans can’t understand Pa. slang.

That’s some jawn.

It appears that other Americans have no idea what Pennsylvanians are saying when they’re speaking in slang.

Preply — a language-learning platform that “[delivers] the best human learning experience by empowering our learners and tutors to succeed” — conducted and published a study which first seeded a list of phrases and terms from each state.

Preply sent out a survey to more than 1,000 respondents across the country to see whether they understood what each word means, compiling results to lay out which slang was the purported hardest for others to comprehend.

Pennsylvania ranked 17th overall as one of the top 20 states with the hardest slang for non-residents to grasp.

As for the top five, well, those would be, in ascending order: Louisiana, West Virginia, Mississippi, Montana and Maine.

“Turns out, Maine takes the crown for being the most misunderstood state when it comes to slang, while Arkansas is the clear winner in terms of being the most understood,” the study reads. “Some state slang is harder to understand because it comes from unique regional influences, history and cultural diversity.”

Maine even had one of the second-most misunderstood phrases — “right out straight” — in the study, which people believe to mean “telling the truth.” In actuality, it means “being very busy.”

In first, in this regard, was the South Dakotan phrase “taverns,” which is referring to a Sloppy Joe sandwich, not a bar.

Jawn, by the way, is a stand-in for, but not limited to, objects, places, people, and events. Jawn can mean nothing and everything.

You learn something new every day!