Kenneth Brown
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Southern slang, or "Hickphonics," as a language to be
taught in all Southern schools.
Here are excerpts from the Hickphonics/English dictionary:
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. A state just north of Florida. Capital
is Hot-lanta. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my
pickup truck."
MUNTS - noun. A calendar division. Usage: "My brother
from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't herd from
him in munts."
FAR - noun. A conflagration. Usage: "If my brother
from Jawjuh don'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!"
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."
RETARD - Verb. To stop working. Usage: "My grampaw
retard at age 65."
TARRED - adverb. Exhausted. Usage: "I just flew in
from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred."
ARE - pronoun. Possessive case of we used as a predicate
adjective.
RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege. Usage: "We
Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats."
FARN - adjective. Not local. Usage: "I cuddint 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 cain't breathe ... give 'im some
ear!"
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 that bob
war fence cump'ny?"
HAZE - a contraction. Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah
.. haze ignert."
SEED - verb, past tense.
GUMMIT - Noun. A bureaucratic institution. Usage: "Them
gummit boys shore are ignert."
taught in all Southern schools.
Here are excerpts from the Hickphonics/English dictionary:
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. A state just north of Florida. Capital
is Hot-lanta. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my
pickup truck."
MUNTS - noun. A calendar division. Usage: "My brother
from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I ain't herd from
him in munts."
FAR - noun. A conflagration. Usage: "If my brother
from Jawjuh don'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!"
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."
RETARD - Verb. To stop working. Usage: "My grampaw
retard at age 65."
TARRED - adverb. Exhausted. Usage: "I just flew in
from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred."
ARE - pronoun. Possessive case of we used as a predicate
adjective.
RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege. Usage: "We
Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats."
FARN - adjective. Not local. Usage: "I cuddint 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 cain't breathe ... give 'im some
ear!"
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 that bob
war fence cump'ny?"
HAZE - a contraction. Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah
.. haze ignert."
SEED - verb, past tense.
GUMMIT - Noun. A bureaucratic institution. Usage: "Them
gummit boys shore are ignert."
