"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]

Speaking of soft drinks, I used to love stopping at Max's Country Store every time I visited my Grandparents to get a Nugrape. :)

[arthurus]

proper initial salutation in Georgia is "Hey"

That "hey is a longer word than a yankee might think from looking at it; more like "haayy" and maybe without the "h" .

[TheBigB]

Shoulda seen the look on my Sister's Sunday School teacher's face when Sis (age 10) told her to "kiss my @ss." Mom had to do some fancy talking to get her outta that one. LOL

[Darlin']

Oooooh, I loved Nugrape. :)

[jrushing]

My personal favorite is "Well, f*** me runnin'."

When my Grandfather was impressed by something, he would say, "Well ats slicker than greased owl sh**."

[Judith Anne]

Did y'all ever hear, "wore me slick" as in, "Watchen them kids all day like to wore me slick!"

[TheBigB]

When I was little my immediate family would take car trips with my mom's parents in tow (we had a van...it was actually more fun than it sounded. We went back and forth to California, Canada, and Florida) Whenever my Grandmother would invariably announce she had to pee, Granddad would tell her, "Swaller it!"

[arthurus]

Yes, even in the same state. I've lived in coastal Ala-Miss-Lou most of my life

Southern Louisiana has half a dozen or more distinct accents. There is Cajun, Creole, French (Golden Meadow) outside of New Orleans and several more in that city including one with Spanish roots (not counting the swarms of mexicans, these are old line Spanish folks. Further north it sounds like Mississippi or Texas and on up at the top it's like Arkansas.

[redhead]

""We brung some stewed turnips to Aunt Vespa but sheuz already dead so we ate um' ourselfs.""

Ain't that "AINT VESPA?", an' glory be! Ah dint know she was fixin' t'kick off! Mmm-mmm! Don't THAT jist take the rag raht offn the bush??"

[Politically Correct]

"y'all" is collective. "all y'all" is plural.

And Y'all's is possesive.
Is that Y'all's house?

[redhead]

"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 heard it first from an Alabama girl. She also used "croaker sack" for gunnysack. (frogs, I'm sure...)

[jrushing]

Southern Louisiana has half a dozen or more distinct accents.

Yes, it's quite amazing to hear. Don't forget the "Yats"(as in wher yaat?) around "Met-tre" and the "nint ward". They seem to have some of that Joyisey accent.

[bootless]

Hey ... an Atkinson family bump!

[redhead]

"I remember when I was a car salesman and a customer on a test drive asked me "What happens if I mash this button?" I replied, if you mash it you will break it, but if you press it, it will turn on the air conditioning."

Also, "mashin' bumps" means squeezing zits or blackheads...

[Darlin']

No, never heard that one before but I understood it just fine. LOL

[arthurus]

WARSH...There's one I haven't heard in awhile

"Warsh" seems to exist in pockets all over the country.

[redhead]

"Carry = Tote"

Also as in "TAKE." "She's fixin' t'carry us on over t'Walmart, she can git the truck t'start..."

[Rockitz]

Are you going to collect all of the other submissions into one large compendium?

[arthurus]

I am an echoer. I have never really had my own accent. I spent the summer in Waldoboro with my granddadddy when I was 14. After I got home to Virginia my mother gave me fits for a week about how I had forgotten how to talk. After 3 weeks all I retained was "ayuh" and "ayup." I still have that.

[arthurus]

I remember a fellow in Charleston SC (when I was 5) named Wretched. My mother (not from around there) thought that was truly rude of his parents to name him that.