On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:21:01 -0600, "family" <britican@bresnan.net>
wrote:
>The Association of Southern Schools has decided to seek a grant
> designating Southern slang, or Y'allbonics, as a language to be taught in
> all Southern schools. The following are excerpts from the
> Y'allbonics/English dictionary.
>
> 1) HEIDI - (noun) - Greeting.
>
> 2) HIRE YEW - Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting. Usage: "Heidi,
> Hire yew?"
>
> 3) BARD - (verb) - Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow". Usage: "My
> brother bard my pickup truck."
>
> 4) JAWJUH - (noun) - The state north of Florida. Capitol is Lanner. Usage:
> "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck and took it to Lanner."
>
> 5) BAMMER - (noun) - The state west of Jawjuh. Capitol is Berminhayam.
> Usage: "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left $20,000,00 in
> improvements."
>
> 6) MUNTS - (noun) - A calendar division. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh
> bard my pickup truck, and I ain't herd from him in munts."
>
> 7) THANK - (verb) - Cognitive process. Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a
> bare."
>
> 8) BARE - (noun) - An alcoholic beverage made of barley, hops, and yeast.
> Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a nutter bare."
>
> 9) IGNERT - (adjective) - Not smart. See "Arkansas native." Usage:" Them
> bammer boys sure are ignert!"
>
> 10) RANCH - (noun) - A tool used for tight'nin' bolts. Usage: "I thank I
> left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard
> a few munts ago."
>
> 11) ALL - (noun) - A petroleum-based lubricant. Usage: "I sure hope my
> brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."
>
> 12) FAR - (noun) - A conflagration. Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh
> don't change the all in my pickup truck, that thang's gonna catch far."
>
> 13) TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel. Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of
> mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."
>
> 14) TIRE - (noun) - A tall monument. Usage: "Lord willin' and the creek
> don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."
>
> 15) RETARD - (verb) - To stop working. Usage: "My grampaw retard at age
> 65."
>
> 16) FAT - (noun and verb) - A battle or combat; to engage in battle or
> combat. Usage: "You younguns keep fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup yuh."
>
> 17) RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege. Usage: "We Southerners
> are willin' to fat for are rats."
>
> 18) CHEER - (adverb) - In this place. Usage: "Jest set that bare rat
> cheer."
>
> 19) FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic. Usage: "I cuddin't unnerstand a
> wurd he sed . . . must be from some farn country."
>
> 20) DID - (adjective) - Not alive. Usage: "He's did, Jim."
>
> 21) ARE - (noun) - A colorless, odorless gas containing oxygen. Usage: "He
> cain't breathe . . . give 'im some are!!"
>
> 22) BOB WAR - (noun) - A sharp, twisted cable. Usage: "Boy, stay away from
> that there bob war fence."
>
> 23) JEW HERE - (pronoun and verb) - Contraction. Usage: "Jew here that my
> brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence cump'ny?"
>
> 24) HAZE - (pronoun and verb) - A contraction. Usage: "Is Bubba smart?"
> "Nah . . . haze ignert. He ain't thanked but a minnit'n 'is laf."
>
> 25) SEED - (verb) - Past tense of "to see." Usage: "I ain't never seed Noo
> Yawk City."
>
> 26) VIEW - (verb and pronoun) - contraction. Usage: "I ain't never seed
> Noo Yawk City. . . view?"
>
> 27) GUBMINT - (noun) - A bureaucratic institution. Usage: "Them gubmint
> boys shore is ignert."
Some other words:
darn sarth - down south
Usage: They larv darn sarth orv thuh bawda
dubya - George W. Bush
Needs no further explanation to a Southerner.
Noo Orleens - a city destroryeed un thuh grate hurricayun orv '05
Sig:
"The cat was once revered as a god. They have never forgotten this" - Anon
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