Just a little humor to start your day off!
Bree
- Atlanta School Board
> >
> > The Atlanta School Board, feeling left out by the
> > fuss over "Ebonics," 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.
> > 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."
> >
> > 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. 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 things gonna catch far."
> >
> > BAHS -- noun. A supervisor.
> > Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern
> > words and git back to
> > work (or studying), your bahs is gonna far you!"
> >
> > TAR -- noun. A rubber wheel.
> > Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from
> Jawjuh
> > 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."
> >
> > DID -- adjective. Not alive.
> > Usage: "He's did, Jim."
> >
> > EAR -- noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless you
> > are in LA).
> > Usage: "He cain't breath ... 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.
> >
Have a GREAT DAY!!!
BREE!
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