Y'allbonics

HOLLiS · 12-10-2007, 09:45

How to speak "Southern" Y'all.

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The Association of Southern Schools has decided to seek a grant designating Southern slang, or Y'allbonics, as a language to be taught in all Southern schools. The following are excerpts from the Y'allbonics/English dictionary.

1) HEIDI - (noun) - Greeting.

2) HIRE YEW - Complete sentence. Remainder of greeting. Usage: "Heidi, Hire yew?"

3) BARD - (verb) - Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow". Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

4) JAWJUH - (noun) - The state north of Florida. Capital is Lanner. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck and took it to Lanner."

5) BAMMER - (noun) - The state west of Jawjuh. Capitol is Berminhayam. Usage: "A tornader jes went through Bammer an' left $20,000,00 in improvements."

6) MUNTS - (noun) - A calendar division. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't herd from him in munts."

7) THANK - (verb) - Cognitive process. Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a bare."

8) BARE - (noun) - An alcoholic beverage made of barley, hops, and yeast. Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a nutter bare."

9) IGNERT - (adjective) - Not smart. See "Arkansas native." Usage:" Them bammer boys sure are ignert!"

10) RANCH - (noun) - A tool used for tight'nin' bolts. Usage: "I thank I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."

11) ALL - (noun) - A petroleum-based lubricant. Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."

12) FAR - (noun) - A conflagration. Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh don't change the all in my pickup truck, that thang's gonna catch far."

13) TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel. Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."

14) TIRE - (noun) - A tall monument. Usage: "Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris some time."

15) RETARD - (verb) - To stop working. Usage: "My grampaw retard at age 65."

16) FAT - (noun and verb) - A battle or combat; to engage in battle or combat. Usage: "You younguns keep fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup yuh."

17) RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege. Usage: "We Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats."

18) CHEER - (adverb) - In this place. Usage: "Jest set that bare rat cheer."

19) FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic. Usage: "I cuddin't unnerstand a wurd he sed . . . must be from some farn country."

20) DID - (adjective) - Not alive. Usage: "He's did, Jim."

21) ARE - (noun) - A colorless, odorless gas containing oxygen. Usage: "He cain't breathe . . . give 'im some are!!"

22) BOB WAR - (noun) - A sharp, twisted cable. Usage: "Boy, stay away from that there bob war fence."

23) JEW HERE - (pronoun and verb) - Contraction. Usage: "Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence c ump'ny?"

24) HAZE - (pronoun and verb) - A contraction. Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah . . . haze ignert. He ain't thanked but a minnit'n 'is laf."

25) SEED - (verb) - Past tense of "to see." Usage: "I ain't never seed Noo Yawk City."

26) VIEW - (verb and pronoun) - contraction. Usage: "I ain't never seed Noo Yawk City. . . view?"

27) GUBMINT - (noun) - A bureaucratic institution. Usage: "Them gubmint boys shore is ignert."

**Bill Harsey** · 12-10-2007, 10:39

Hollis,
We got places here in Orygun that this helps with.

PSM · 12-10-2007, 11:26

Ah dunt gidet.

Pat

12-10-2007, 12:30

Singular: yall crazy.

Plural: all yall crazy.

HTH

warrottjr · 12-10-2007, 12:36

This is great Jeff Foxworthy material.

f50lrrp · 12-10-2007, 13:55

NORTHERN GIRL, You can.

SOUTHERN GIRL, Ya'll can!

**Peregrino** · 12-10-2007, 19:05

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Originally Posted by f50lrrp

NORTHERN GIRL, You can.

SOUTHERN GIRL, Ya'll can!

That's what Southern Gentlemen refer to as "gen-u-wine hospitality".

18Ddave · 12-11-2007, 15:55

Thanks youz guyz [Chicago speak for 'y'all'] for the language material. No need for terps now. It'll come in handy whenever us 'yanks' have to deal with our Bn and GRP HQs down in MS and AL!
BAHAHAHAH!!
dave

sofmed · 12-14-2007, 01:51

Being a native of Berminhayam I tru-leh do presci-ate the vol-yum of suthun hum-ah posted heah.

de, de, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, deee. de, de, dee, dee, deeee!

72_Wilderness · 12-24-2007, 17:44

Hollis, I use them words ever day, but it took me a coons age to figure them. I can talk real good, but I only got justa few books. I's goin' to college next yar.

echoes · 12-25-2007, 14:19

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Originally Posted by Peregrino

That's what Southern Gentlemen refer to as "gen-u-wine hospitality".

Well Sir,

We pert-near do taw-lk like the-is...yee-haw!

Wink at cha' ya'll!

Holly

SF_BHT · 12-25-2007, 15:58

Hollis
No wonder the recuter talked me in to joining teh army. He was from Jersey and was speken nother language. He had lots of fotos so after figeren fot a time I mad my X and went in. Ft Benning was in my kneck of the woods so I figured it was OK......

HOLLiS · 12-26-2007, 11:18

LOL, recuiters are very sneaky individuals. Like you I found out the hard way. So much for my all expense vaction to a warm topical paradise.

SF_BHT · 12-26-2007, 15:57

The only good view I had at benning was when we went up and jumped out of a C-130/C141. Then we were back in the Pine and sand hell it is famous for and humpig our way to no where.....

sofmed · 12-26-2007, 23:02

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Originally Posted by SF_BHT

The only good view I had at benning was when we went up and jumped out of a C-130/C141. Then we were back in the Pine and sand hell it is famous for and humpig our way to no where.....

Hopefully you didn't land in the creek while it was running at full tilt, like I did. And it was the end of March that year. Does anyone else remember what the weather is like that time of year? BBBBRRRRRR!