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."
The plural of "y'all" is "all y'all".
There's a street in Austin named "Bob Wire."
The THANK = THINK caused Lil' M problems when he was learning to spell.
Since we're talking pronunciation, my pet peave is people who pronounce pecan like pee-can. Folks a pee can is an empty coffe can one takes on a long car trip. A pecan (pu-con) is the main ingredient in Southern baking.
My friend Phantom Lord is a Damn Yankee.
But I like him anyhow.
In that case, "yalls'es" would be plural possessive. I think. :^)
Well, as I said, I'm a hillbilly from the Ozarks. ;-D
Another one I've heard as an exclamation: "Well, s--t far (fire) and save matches!"
"Spuck".... "I spuck that they aint smart enough to find thir mother in a rain storm"
I think it would be "you'uns". At least that's how my Granny used to say it. I remember the old people back in the Tennessee hills used to say "thee" or "thee'll" for "you" or "you will". That was a long time ago though and things do change.
O... Jewdass Priest! I dun fownd mah thred!!!
""Spuck".... "
I've always heard that as "speck."
hehehehe I have to write all these down *lol*
Never quite sure what it meant, but I liked it. :^)
Chimbley...that thang the smoke from the farplace go out of.
Laugh - as a midwest girl - married to a North Carolinian southern gentleman.. the two that he uses that I still have to think about are:
pin - this can either be a straight pin.. safety pin.. or INK PIN..
yonder - basically anywhere but here..
Me: "Honey - where did you put the screwdriver?"
Him: "It's in yonder"...
?!?!? Yonder could be anywhere from the junk drawer (this from my Chicago roots..there was a thread on Chicagoese a few days ago) to the car...
Funny I was discussing ebonics with a friend this weekend, briefly. While we were watching the old Monogram film, 'King of the Zombies,' Mantan Moreland (one of my favorite actors) and an african american young lady become a bit of a couple. They have a few scenes together, mostly played for laughs. Their scenes would, by and large, be considered racist today because of their exagerated speech pattern, idioms they use, etc.
To be fair, the depiction is not very flattering, but I did remark that while their speech pattern was exagerated and based on a poor racial sterotype, you could at least understand them, and they had a better command of the english language than maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of the modern african american population. Wild!
"Speck" sound a bit to farn for my tase buds
"All y'all." Or so I was told by a dear friend when I visited him in West - no, sorry, "West By God" Virginia.
If one uses soap during the wrenchin' it would be: "I'll git thar soon's ah warsh muh hayuns."
Heyull yeah, y'all.
}:-)4
One minor adjustment: Yall git yall'es cut-offs on cause we're goin over to momma-en-ems & swim in their pool tubin'!
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