"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."

[snopercod]

Correct. And y'uns is also plural.

[Libloather]

HEP: (noun) What you git when the am-bew-lance arrives.

MOMMENEMS: (noun) Familiar place to go for most holidays. "We're gitten' on down to mommenems - git us a Co-Coler. An oranch one..."

(I think I seriously damaged the FR spell checker...)

[hummingbird]

Funny, WVNan!

[bk1000]

"What is pural for y'all?"

In a good portion of the south, y'all IS plural. Some say 'all y'all' when referring to an extended group, or just plain 'y'all' referring to an immediate group. At least we don't say 'youse', which is basically the northern equivilant!

[Kenny Bunk]

So this guy from Virginia moves to Maine as a babe in arms in about 1905. In 1950, his grandchild was born, so he says to this old Mainiac, "Well I guess my grandchildren are gonna be real Maine folks now."

To which the only proper downeast response is, "Well then, I reckon if your cat had kittens in the oven you'd eat'em for biscuits?"

In my day, a guy who moved to my town just after the Spanish War from Waldoboro in fact, was always referred to as the "New Man." When he died at 106, after living here for over 100 years, his obit said, "New Man in Town FInally Dies."

Hope all these Somalis and Messachewedshitts people develop themselves a sense of humor, ayuh. Shoe's gonna pinch if they don't.

[Judith Anne]

It's another dialect, isn't it? ;-D Remember the Mark Twain books, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn? He could really get it into writing...

[Judith Anne]

Yep. Yaunta try smore?

[Liz]

Cute. Just tried to use the spellchecker......you did one swell job on it. LOL.

[Tax-chick]

I love Johnny Cash's recording of that song. Of course, Tom Petty was one of JC's common-law-sons-in-law. Gosh, I miss John and June! I checked out her last record from the library a few weeks ago. My daughter wants me to buy it!

[WKB]

Where have you been all day? Out "making" groceries?

No we had Grand maw's Birthday Party at "Mack" Donalds.

And that is Mack not Mick.
Don't believe it have ever ordered a Big Mick?
NO

[WKB]

I see I am little late to the party but thanks for the invite anyways.

[WKB]

News flash: Damnyankee IS one word down here.



But "harass" is not.

[onyx]

It surely is Mack Donald's.
Even I know that.

[annyokie]

I never heard "yuns" or "yins" or "youse" until we lived in Pennsylvania.

No one has mention lawteemercy, yet. As in "Lawteemercy! Ya'll been a drankin'!"

[annyokie]

No one has mention the "A" before transitive verbs.
Eg: She's still a-eyeing that there dress.

Or Imo.

Imo set these biscuits right quick.

[Wampus SC]

"On a more contemporary note, why is it so difficult for Southerners to pronounce "Shi'ite?"

We do pronounce it right....

[Wampus SC]

I've liked that song since the first time I heard it.

It's interesting to see how they think we sound up there in the benighted north...

[okie01]

BAMMER: (noun) The state west of Jawjuh. Capital is Berminhayum.

The capitol of Bammer is NOT Berminhayum.

It's Muntgummry.

[Wampus SC]

"I'm still trying to figure out what 'yuns' stands for, as I've heard it multiple times since moving to the N. GA mountains (including western NC). I'm from Oklahoma so I use y'all all the time. You all, simple. But not 'yuns'. I'm thinking it means 'you ones', which doesn't make much sense grammatically, but fits. The first time I heard this was the first time I saw someone order a deep fried hot dog and have it slathered with cole slaw."

"Yuns" is "you ones". It's actually pronounced "you uns", but to some people it sounds like "yuns".

The difference between this word and "y'all" is subtle:

"Y'all" - collective plural of "you" - used for more than one person, addressed as a group as a whole.

"You uns" - individual plural of "you" - used for more than one person, addressed as individuals.

I haven't had a hot dog with coleslaw in I don't know when. The Dr. says I can't have those anymore, but I'm not gonna tell the Dr. :)

[Wampus SC]

"One of my favorites is from my sister, a professional comedian. To be a Southern preacher, you must be able to pronounce the name of Jesus in 4 or more syllables."

A long time ago there was a radio preacher named Oliver Green, from Greenville, SC.

He pronounced God "Go WAHH Odd".