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				 Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:58 am    Post subject: How To Speak Southern | 
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				How To Speak Southern
 
Hah Tu Spek Suthun)
 
 
 
BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
 
Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."
 
 
JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of
 
Florida.
 
Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck."
 
 
MUNTS - noun. A calendar division.
 
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I
 
aint herd from him in munts."
 
 
IGNERT - adjective. Not smart. See "Auburn Alumni."
 
Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are ignert!"
 
 
RANCH - noun. A tool.
 
Usage: "I think I left 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 doesn't change the all in
 
my pickup truck, that things gonna catch far."
 
 
BAHS - noun. A supervisor.
 
Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern words and
 
git back to work, your bahs is gonna far you!"
 
 
TAR - noun. A rubber wheel.
 
Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh doesn't
 
git a flat tar in my pickup truck."
 
 
TIRE - noun. A tall monument.
 
Usage: "Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I sure do
 
hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."
 
 
HOT - noun. A blood-pumping organ.
 
 
HOD - adverb. Not easy.
 
Usage: "A broken hot is hod to fix."
 
 
RETARD - Verb. To stop working.
 
Usage: "My granpaw retard at age 65."
 
 
TARRED - adverb. Exhausted.
 
Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are
 
tarred."
 
 
RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege.
 
Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats."
 
 
LOT - adjective. Luminescent.
 
Usage: "I dream of Jeanie in the lot-brown hair."
 
 
FARN - adjective. Not local.
 
Usage: "I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from
 
some farn country."
 
 
DID - adjective. Not alive.
 
Usage: "He's did, Jim."
 
 
EAR - noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in
 
LA).
 
Usage: "He can't breathe ... give 'em some ear!"
 
 
BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable.
 
Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."
 
 
JU-HERE - a question.
 
Usage: "Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys' coach Jimmy
 
Johnson recently toured the University of Alabama?"
 
 
HAZE - a contraction.
 
Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah ... haze ignert."
 
 
SEED - verb, past tense.
 
 
VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun.
 
Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City ... view?"
 
 
HEAVY DEW - phrase. A request for action.
 
Usage: "Kin I heavy dew me a favor?"
 
 
GUMMIT - Noun. An often-closed bureaucratic institution.
 
Usage: "Great ... ANOTHER gummit shutdown!" _________________ For every person with a spark of genius, there are a hundred with ignition trouble. | 
			 
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