"Y'allbonics"

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[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."

[TheBigB]

A Tayxus gal would enjoy this. :-)

[MagnumRancid]

<<
I thought it was "awl." As in, "Checkyer awl, mister?"
>>
Some yankee friends of mine were returning to PA from a Dead show in New Orleans via Mississippi. They stopped at a fillin station.
Attendant asks them "yawl need chickin". They were hungry so they said "yes, that sounds good".

[bootless]

My friend, the Belle of Red Stick down in Louisiana, says that Y'all in singular, and "All Y'all" is plural". :-)

[TheBigB]

It also landed him...if you saw the movie...Jaime Pressly AND Brittany Daniel. Now THAT is the power of the mullet.

[MortMan]

Hey - Didn't you know that southerners are the ONLY ones who pronounce "Shi'ite" correctly? Rhymes with "sit"!

[hummingbird]

"Well, ah 'swan." Still dunno what it means.

I don't know the origin, either, BigB, but "I tell you whut," when people use it, they often squint their eyes down like something really significant is being pondered! Like somebody was "gonna get a whuppin" or "needed a whuppin."

[Vigilantcitizen]

Elvin Bishop sittin' on a bale of hay

He ain't good lookin',

but he sure can play

And there's ZZ top

But we can't forget

That ole brother Willie's gettin soakin' wet.

And all the good people down in Tennessee

Are diggin barefoot Jerry and CDB.

[Mamzelle]

re: Capital is Lanner.---LOL! Took me a second...

[Phantom Lord]

Everybody knows that it's either a "pickup" or a "truck", but never both:-)

Most of my southern friends here in NC call them a "Pick 'em up truck"

[MagnumRancid]

It is likely that swan, as in "well, ah 'swan", is rooted in swoon. Kinda (or is it kindly?) like being overwhelmed.

[Vigilantcitizen]

It also landed him...if you saw the movie...Jaime Pressly AND Brittany Daniel. Now THAT is the power of the mullet.

IMO...the funniest part of that movie is the scene at the carnival where Joe Dirt puts the charm on ole girl.

[Rebelbase]

"awl"

I tend to put a more "O" sound than "A"....hard to spell, "Owl" sends a completly different message!

[TheBigB]

I have never...not once...in my years of being raised in Bammer, adjoocated in Missipy, an' workin' in Taynasee...heard a Southerner refer to ONE person as "y'all." That's m'story an' I'm stickin' to it. :)

[pnz1]

I've always heard it used "Well, I swanney" meaning "Well I'll be durn"

[WVNan]

One day I answered the phone, and the voice at the other end said abruptly, "Whosiz?"

"With whom did you wish to speak," I said.

There was a long pause and then, "I kin tell ye right now by the way yer a-talkin' it's not who I's a-wantin."

[MagnumRancid]

The B in barefoot should be capitalized.
Barefoot Jerry was a moderatly popular Nashville area band about the same time as CDB was takin off.

[arjay]

One of my favorite phrases from Alabama was
"It don't make me no never mind."

[Vigilantcitizen]

Well, bless your heart.

Translation: Go f%#$ yourself you prick.

[Snowy]

If it isn't some rude and loud broad from NJ

Oh, how is my mother-in-law? They're coming to visit in June.

[pnz1]

I use yuh for one person-"Are yuh gonna git that?"