Understanding Rednecks 3

Y’allbonics – How to speak Southern

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 pick-up truck.”

JAWJUH - noun - The state north of Florida. Capitol is Lanner.
Usage - “My brother from Jawjuh bard my pick-up truck.”

BAMMER - noun - The state west of Jawjuh. Capitol 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 pick-up truck an’ I ain’t heard from him in munts.”

THANK - verb - Cognitive process.
BARE - noun - An alcoholic beverage made of barley, hops and yeast.
Usage - “Ah thank ah’ll have a bare.”

IGNERT - adjective - Not smart. See “Arkansas native.”
Usage - “Them Bammer boys shore are ignert.”

RANCH - noun - A tool for tight’nin’ bolts.
Usage - “I thank I left my ranch in the back of that pick-up 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 pick-up truck.”

FAR - noun - A conflagration.
Usage - “If my brother from Jawjuh don’t change the all in my pick-up truck, that thing’s gonna catch far.”

TAR - noun - A rubber wheel.
Usage - “Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don’t git a flat tar in my pick-up truck.”

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.”

RETARD - verb - To stop working.
Usage - “My grampaw retard at age 65.”

FAT - noun, verb - A Usage -a battle or conflict; to engage in battle or combat.
Usage - “You younguns keep fat’n ‘n’ ah’m gonna whup y’uh asses.”

RATS - noun - Entitled power or privilege.
Usage “We Southerners are willin’ to fat for are rats.”

CHEER - adverb - In this place.
Usage - Jus’ set that bare rat cheer.

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 colourless, odorless gas. Oxygen.
Usage - “He cain’t breathe, give him some ARE!”

BOB WAR - noun - A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage - “Boy, stay away from that bob war fence.”

JEW HERE - noun and verb, contraction.
Usage - “Jew here that my brother from Jawjuh got a job with a bob wire fence cump’ny?”
HAZE - a contraction.
Usage - “Is Bubba smart?” “Nah, haze ingnert. He ain’t thanked but a minnit’n ‘is laf.”

SEED - verb - Past tense of “to see.”
VIEW - contraction, verb and pronoun.
Usage - “I ain’t never seed New York City .. view?”

GUBMINT - noun - A bureaucratic institution.
Usage - “Them gubmint boys shore is ignert.”