Posted on 05/18/2004 8:09:41 AM PDT by OldBlondBabe
Not to be outdone by Ebonics in California, the Southern Association of Colleges & Schools is requesting billions of federal dollars to teach "Y'allbonics" in all classrooms south of the Mason-Dixon line. Included here are some samples of "Y'allbonics." If you do not understand any of them, contact a Southerner for an explanation.
HEIDI: (noun) Greeting.
HIRE YEW: (complete sentence) Remainder of greeting. Usage: "Heidi, hire yew?"
BARD: (verb) Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow." Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."
JAWJUH: (noun) The state north of Florida. Capital is Lanner. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck."
BAMMER: (noun) The state west of Jawjuh. Capital is Berminhayum. Usage: "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left $20,000,000 in improvements."
MUNTS: (noun) A calendar division. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't herd from him in munts."
THANK: (verb) Cognitive process. Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a Coke."
RANCH: (noun) A tool used for tight'nin' bolts. Usage: "I thank I leff my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."
ALL: (noun) A petroleum-based lubricant. Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."
FAR: (noun) A conflagration. Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh don't change the all in my pickup truck, that thing's gonna catch far."
TAR: (noun) A rubber wheel. Usage: "I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."
TIRE: (noun) A tall monument. Usage: "Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, Ah sure hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Pars sometime."
RETARD: (verb) To stop working. Usage: "My grampaw retard at age 65."
FARN: (adjective) Not domestic. Usage: "I cuddint unnerstand a wurd he sed .must be from some farn country."
DID: (adjective) Not alive. Usage: "He's did, Jim."
ARE: (noun) A colorless, odorless gas; oxygen. Usage: "He cain't breathe give 'im some ARE!"
BOB WAR: (noun) A sharp, twisted cable. Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."
"entire nation" was my dad's explanation.
Is "wear you out" a Southern thing-as in your momma telling you "I'm gonna' wear you out" (spank) if you acted up in church.
I know this is a humor thread, but when is Hollywood going to learn that there is more than one southern accent?
AHMD FOSSES: Military. "Ah thank I'll go to the Ahmd Fosses Day shindig at Camp Swampy."
WUH: International conflict. "Our ahmd fosses are there in case we needs to go to wuh, not to 'liver food and take out the trash."
They have this same word in Noo Joisey....but there it means "how you is?"
hail: Where bad people go when they die.
wail: A source of water, ie Oretesian wail.
fail: a mishap. "I seen her fail."
smail: Odor
mail: Actor's First name, ie Mail Gibson
tail: Orate, ie "Tail me a story."
Sun-Drop-possibly the official drink of the South? That or an RC Cola?
Notice you said "acted up". That's how I was raised to call misbehaving.
Where did this "acted out" come from. I hear that everywhere now.
Hay! Ain't that sapposed ta be "chimbly?"
We eat breakfast, lunch, and supper. For the longest time, I had no idea what anyone meant by the word "dinner." :)
One of my twins (almost 8 years old) knows exactly when to say "Turn it up!"
That be me. You done did good tscislaw
I thank thar tryun ta make funuvus.
Yoou's absolutely kerect. Them high-born Georgia types like Jimmah Cahta and such talks a might different than say east Tennessee ridge runners which ain't at all like west Texas.
We say "show out," as in, "Spolled brat showing out."
I'll bet that's adorable coming from the mouth of a cute-as-a-button 3yo. :)
When I was stationed in South Carolina, I always thought "damnyankee" was a single word...
R-uh C for sure...but it gots to be 'companied with a Moon Pie!
When I first moved to NC people would ask me where I was from. I would say New York. Better than 90% of those who asked me would respond, "what part of the city?"
Their bewildermint upon learning I was not from the city would lead to a geography lesson.
You're right. Damyankee IS a single word. ;-D
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