The Association of Southern Schools has decided to pursue some of the
seemingly endless taxpayer dollar pipeline through Washington
designating Southern slang, or Y'allbonics, as a language to be taught
in all Southern schools. The following are excerpts from the Y'allbonics
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. Capitol 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 $20,000,000 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 bare.\"
9.) IGNERT - (adjective) - Not smart. See \"Arkansas native.\"
Usage: \"Them bammer boys sure are ignert!\"
10.) RANCH - (noun)- 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 thing'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
on 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 sometime.\"
15.) RETARD - (verb) - To stop working.
Usage: \"My grampaw retard at age 65.\"
16.) FAT - (noun), (verb) - a battle or combat; to engage in battle or
combat.
Usage: \"You younguns keep fat'n, ah'm gonna whup y'uns.\"
17.) RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: \"We Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats.\"
18.) CHEER - (adverb) In this place.
Usage: \"Just set that bare rat cheer\".
19.) FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic.
Usage: \"I cuddint 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 bob war fence.\"
23.) JEW HERE - (noun) and (verb) contraction.
Usage: \"Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war
fence cump'ny?\"
24.) HAZE - a contraction.
Usage: \"Is Bubba smart?\" \"Nah ... haze ignert. He ain't thanked but a
minnit'n in his whole laf.\"
25.) SEED -(verb) - past tense of \"to see\".
Usage: \"I ain't never seed New York City\".
26.) VIEW - contraction (verb) and pronoun.
Usage: \"I ain't never seed New York City, view?\"
27.) GUBMINT - (noun) - A bureaucratic institution.
28.) ET'YET? - contraction (verb)- Caloric intake question.
Usage: Et'yet?
