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."
Off the subject but I jist gotta share this'un: Poster on LP, ignorantly describing a Kerry speech, "Kerry enervated the crowd." LOL
Old time natives of Floyd County, Virginia pronounced the verb wash, as "warsh". In addition, the word, "it", was pronounced "hit". They also referred to "rinse", as "rinch", or "wrench". I've heard older people native to Bath County, VA use the same pronounciation.
My dad uses that term. My mom doesn't. Both from Detroit(although my dad moved a lot growing up).
One of the best things I even heard in my life was when my dad told me about watching an Ernest Ainsley special one time and he was all up in his healing glory...when this pitiful-looking fellow came up on stage and Ernest came over and asked him, "What is your affliction, my son?" And the fellow said, verbatim, "I cain't heeyur." Pop still laughs out loud when recalling that one. :)
Depends on which part of which southern state. In Florida we can just ignore everything south of Lakeland because that's all up north somewhere.
Depends on which part of which southern state. In Florida we can just ignore everything south of Lakeland because that's all up north somewhere.
That seems to be Missouri/northern Arkansas. It is not Deep South.
LOL. Well, yes, I expect he did. He has a similar effect on me, then I yawn and nod off. I gather the poster meant to imply that Kerry, energized the crowd ?
That is a psychologism. There is no such thing as a real emotion or sincere anything. We are always "acting" in "roles" to the psychologist and, by extension, to liberals. Those folks think they are tho only ones who understand anything. Some of them think that therefore they are not acting. Others believe since its all acting then all they have to do to install utopia is change everybody's script.
It is...I've been saying "Heidi! Hire you!", pronounced absolutely as written, for years in Bammer and Taynassee.
they forgot them plahrs y' need for workin' with the bob wahr...
I'll have to withhold judgement on accuracy until you provide a picture of Erika. :^)
"take on". Whew, that girl is sum kinda upset, she's really takin' on.
Good story. :)
My personal favorite is "Well, f**k me runnin'."
reckon
-I think, I aim to, etc...
Reckon I git side for it starts raynin!
puter
-computer, PC
Hiss damn puter aint wort dah truhble!
yaughtoo
-you ought to
Reckon yaughtoo fix dat damn puter!
It must be - I sure heard it growing up! The folks were fixin' to get riled up if I didn't simmer down.
And the very finest kind is from north/central Alabama and Mississippi, at least for a man listening to women talk.
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