"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."

[Smartaleck]

It isn't......for example, in your spelling of the word you left out the 13 syllables. as sin shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[MineralMan]

Heah's anuther won they missed:

AMO: I am going to, as in "Amo head out an buy some tars for mah truck.

[Judith Anne]

Haha! I love this. My favorite is:

The core crash left him blonde and pearlized.

Translation: The car crash left him blind and paralyzed.

Also--Adam Balm: Atom bomb.

Of course, these are hillbillyisms, which I do love.

[FlatLandBeer]

What is pural for y'all?

[IamConservative]

To confuse Yankees more, there are dual usage words as well.

"The crick is just on the other side of the holler."

"Boy, holler to the neighbor and see can we borry they shovel."

[stainlessbanner]

I still say yu'uns (you-uns). Not sure where it comes from, it's just always been a part of our language.

"Yu'uns go down yonder and git a co-cola."

[TheBigB]

Yup. :)

MAYNAISE: (noun) Not "Mayonnaise." Colloquialism. Ex. "Maynaise a whole lotta folks hyar tonight!"

In Yankee: "Man, there's a whole lot of folks here tonight!"

[pnz1]

It's not you uns?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Or as a foreigner once told me, the first two words in English that he heard (on a visit to the US) were: "Jeetjet? Squeet."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Every once in a while, I run into some one who uses the "what I did," phrase at the end of a sentence.
"I put new tires on my pickup last week, what I did..."

[TheBigB]

y'all IS plural. It refers to a group of people. Any other usage (as in a Yankee gal on TV using a pretend Southern accent to say "you all" when referring to one person) is silly and not real.

[cvq3842]

Everybody tawks funny except us Noo Yawkers . . .

[IamConservative]

My favorite - for many reasons, primarily the cold beer.

Sensuous. "Sensuous up, could you get me a beer?"

[OldBlondBabe]

I truly hope they haven't brought dowm that Yankee fear of the wild animals that abound in these parts.

No, in fact, one of the things my sister likes is that everyone IS so polite and courteous. Her kids go to a private school and they're required to use "Yes m'am and Yes sir".

On another note--- neither she, nor I would need to pick up those "Southern niceties" cuz our folks "raised us right".

[Constitution Day]

Here's one of my favorite Southernisms that my grandma uses all the time: "mommicked up".

It means "messed up" or "torn up".

[Judith Anne]

Yes, I love the sayings, like "He's ten pounds of s--t in a five pound bag.

[cyborg]

LOL

[ThomasMore]

LOL....bump for a good laugh.

Thank You.

[WKB]

My favorite is "mommanims"


I going down to momma and thems to eat supper

[TheBigB]

In dramatic situations, it's acceptable to add "far" (fire) to the end of the expression.

Ex. "Sheeee-yet far, Newt, she's headin' fer the briar patch again!"