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."
Ahem!!! That's pronownced pronownseeayshun!!!
Precisely, the pronunciation of with is properly "Mewn Pah."
... oh wait, sorry, wrong thread!
Ive yet to see anyones ass actually bust though.
Ok all y'all think this funny but I moved to Maine 'bout tin years ago 'n I still got serious cumunicatsun problems. I mean nobody up here even knows what tump means. I'm fixin to go nuts. and could sumbody tell me what a dooryad is and why there's a cah in it?
Ya'll come on down!....
Izzat lak a see-ment pond? :)
Well the RC Cola Moonpie Festival is this weekend in Bell Buckle TN..
One of my first encounters with the North/South language barrier was also in the service. We had some free time and a group of fellers was getting ready to go out. So, I asked them plain as day "Wad chya'll fixin a du?".
Man it took them forever to figure that one out.
Dinner was served Sunday after church.
There was this old fellow from Arkansas who had a flat tire, pulled off on the side of the road, and proceeded to put a bouquet of flowers in front of the car and one behind it. Then he got back in the car to wait.
A passerby studied the scene as he drove by and was so curious he turned around and went back. He asked the fellow what the problem was.
The man replied, "I have a flat tire."
In response the passerby asked, "But what's with the flowers?"
The man responded, "When you break down they tell you to put flares in the front and flares in the back! I never did understand it neither."
How you recon that crack got in there in the first place? Busted it when you was a youngin, I'd say.
This is so true. Arguments actually break out as to the correct pronunciation. I've lived in all the deep Southern states and I can pick up on the differences so as to identify the state one is from.
Round here Dinner is any meal where you sit down to the table. Breakfast, lunch, and supper are the specific "dinners". There is some debate if Breakfast is a dinner, pertty much agreement on Lunch and Supper.
We love breakfast for supper..
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We love breakfast for supper..
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That's why the Good Lord gave us Cracker Barrel, Waffle House, and the IHOP.
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