FW: Hickbonics (?)
Diane P. withheld (ddavis@bbtnet.com)
Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:13:21 -0400
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| GREETINGS FROM THE SOUTH!!!
| >>
| >>> The Atlanta School Board, has decided to designate 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. >>>
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| Usage: "Heidi. Hire yew."
| >>>
| >>> BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow." >>>
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| 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."
| >>>
| >>> IGNERT - adjective. Not smart. See "Arkansas native." >>>
| Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are ignert!" >>>
| >>> RANCH - noun. A tool used for tight'nin' bolts.
| >>> 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. (alt. sp. AWL) 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: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh >>>
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| don't git a flat tar in my pickup 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 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."
| >>>
| >>> FAT - noun, verb. 1. a battle or combat. 2. to engage in
| battle
| or >>> combat.
| >>>
| >>> 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."
| >>>
| >>> 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: "Kids, y'all 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 of see.
| >>>
| >>> VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun.
| >>> Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City... view?" >>>
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| >>> DID - adjective. Not alive.
| >>> Usage: "He's did, Jim."
| >>>
| >>> BAHS - noun. A supervisor.
| >>> Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern
| words
| >>> and git back to work, your bahs is gonna far yew!"
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