{"id":740239,"date":"2022-01-08T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/who-came-up-with-the-word-jon-for-a-fool-edems-question-to-ghanaians\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T08:31:08","slug":"who-came-up-with-the-word-jon-for-a-fool-edems-question-to-ghanaians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/who-came-up-with-the-word-jon-for-a-fool-edems-question-to-ghanaians\/","title":{"rendered":"“Who came up with the word \u201cJon\u201d for a fool?” – Edem’s question to Ghanaians"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ghanaian musician, Denning Edem Hotor, known by stage name Edem is asking Ghanaians the originator of the word “Jon” used for a fool.<\/p>\n

The Ghanaian musician, Edem took to Twitter to ask Ghanaians the originator of the word “Jon”. <\/p>\n

“Who came up with the word \u201cJon\u201d for a fool ?,” he tweeted.<\/p>\n

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However, netizens have reacted to the tweet as they states the genesis of the word “Jon”.<\/p>\n

Akwasi AJ: “The jun for junky makes sense but The Akans also have \u2018dwon\u2019. If an Akan tells you that you walk \u2018dwon dwon\u2019 it means you walk foolishly or like a lunatic. Another variant of it is \u2018dwobii\u2019 which is usually used to describe a stupid or foolish-like face.”<\/p>\n

Kofi B: “It’s junkie and we kumasi folks shorten it to Jon.”<\/p>\n

Shattawale dick_big: “Is not\u00a0Jon but rather Jun (junkie) so is an American slang word for drug addicted or useless”<\/p>\n

Baffy: “Came from Junky- Jun”<\/p>\n

Big Mode: “Kumasi people”<\/p>\n

Myla: “Corruption of John maybe, a common name used in unknown cases”<\/p>\n

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Ghanaian musician, Denning Edem Hotor, known by stage name Edem is asking Ghanaians the originator of the word “Jon” used for a fool. The Ghanaian musician, Edem took to Twitter to ask Ghanaians the originator of the word “Jon”. “Who came up with the word \u201cJon\u201d for a fool ?,” he tweeted. Screenshot below; However, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}