southern ebonics

[Chris_L]

Southern Ebonics

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 pi! ckup 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
Jawjuhdon'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: "Icuddint unnerstand a wurd
he sed .... mus! t 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."

[Dukes69]

I dont get it . . . I could understand that perfectly.

[nagal]

For a second I thought I was reading a post by one of my cousins which just happends to be in Jawjuh.

[blackZZR]

Born In Florida and raised in the south

ok, I think you all need to settle down, we don't talk like that at all down home, infact this last time when I spent a week with my father this spring, My wife stopped callin everyone Bubba after 2 days saying she could finally start undrstandin em al. she dun cene that thar listin yu put up and sez thot is near not nuff. likes she sade, we doest tawks normal in dixie. Yall all neds to learn not ta usun an accent

[king4wd2]

That was funny!!! That reminds me of watching Blue Collar TV with Larry the Cable Guy!!! You started your own Redneck Dictionary!