“y’all’s”
Ha Ha Ha!
I have lived in the South for 12 of my 59 years, and i talk like that now.
Well, if y’all want to understand our dear “Suth’ners”, here’s a little help. (P.S. Here’s a big ((((HUG)))) for ALL our dear folk from the South)
Southern Talk
1. BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive “to borrow.”
Usage: “My brother bard my pickup truck.”
2. JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida.
Usage: “My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck.”
3. MUNTS - noun. A calendar division.
Usage: “My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I aint herd
from him in munts.”
4. IGNERT - adjective. Not smart. See “Auburn Alumni.”
Usage: “Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are ignert!”
5. RANCH - noun. A tool.
Usage: “I think I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my
brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago.”
6. ALL - noun. A petroleum-based lubricant.
Usage: “I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck.”
7. FAR - noun. A conflagration.
Usage: “If my brother from Jawjuh doesn’t change the all in my
pickup truck, that things gonna catch far.”
8. Y’ALL — noun. A degree of rotation.
Usage: “There are three degrees of Southern rotation: Pitch, Roll,and Y’all.”
9. BAHS - noun. A supervisor.
Usage: “If you don’t stop reading these Southern words and git back
to work, your bahs is gonna far you!”
10. TAR - noun. A rubber wheel.
Usage: “Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh doesn’t git a
flat tar in my pickup truck.”
11. TIRE - noun. A tall monument.
Usage: “Lord willing and the creeks don’t rise, I sure do hope to
see that Eifel Tire in Paris sometime.”
12. HOT - noun. A blood-pumping organ.
HOD - adverb. Not easy.
Usage: “A broken hot is hod to fix.”
13. RETARD - Verb. To stop working.
Usage: “My granpaw retard at age 65.”
14. TARRED - adverb. Exhausted.
Usage: “I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred.”
15. RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: “We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats.”
16. LOT - adjective. Luminescent.
Usage: “I dream of Jeanie in the lot-brown hair.”
17. FARN - adjective. Not local.
Usage: “I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from some farn country.”
18. DID - adjective. Not alive.
Usage: “He’s did, Jim.”
19. EAR - noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in LA).
Usage: “He can’t breathe ... give ‘em some ear!”
20. BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage: “Boy, stay away from that bob war fence.”
21. JU-HERE - a question.
Usage: “Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys’ coach Jimmy Johnson
recently toured the University of Alabama?”
22. HAZE - a contraction.
Usage: “Is Bubba smart?” “Nah ... haze ignert.”
23. SEED - verb, past tense.
VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun.
Usage: “I ain’t never seed New York City ... view?”
24. HEAVY DEW - phrase. A request for action.
Usage: “Kin I heavy dew me a favor?”
25. WARSH - verb. To clean.
SQUARSH - noun. A vegetable (also verb - to flatten).
Usage: “Warsh that squarsh, Bubba ... you don’t know where its been!”