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Y'ALLBONICS
The Association of Southern Schools has decided to pursue some of the
seemingly endless taxpayer dollars running through the Washington pipe
line by designating ! Southern slang, or Y'allbonics, as a language to be
taught in all Southern schools. The following are excerpts from the
Y'allbonics/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) - The state north of Florida. Capitol is Lanner. Usage
"My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck."
BAMMER - (noun) - The state west of Jawjuh. Capitol is Mungumry.
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 pickup truck, and I ain't herd from him in munts."
THANK - (verb) - Cognitive process. Usage "Ah thank ah'll have a drank."
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 sure is ignert!"
RANCH - (noun) - A tool used for tight'nin' bolts. Usage "I thank 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 thing's gonna catch far."
TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel. Usage "Garsh, 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 sho'nuf hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris some day."
RETARD - (verb) - To stop working. Usage "My grampaw retard at age 65."
FAT - (noun), (verb) - a battle or combat; to engage in battle or
combat. Usage "You younguns keep fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup y'all."
RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege. Usage "We Southerners are
willin' to fat for are rats."
CHEER - (adverb) In this place. Usage "Just set that bare rat cheer."
FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic. Usage "I cudding unnerstand a wurd
he sed... must be from some farn kuntry."
DID - (adjective) - Not alive. Usage "He's did, Jim."
ARE - (noun) - A colorless, odorless gas Oxygen. Usage "He cain't
breathe...give'em some ARE!"
BOB WAR - (noun) - A sharp, twisted cable. Usage "Boy, stay away fum
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 cumpny?"
HAZE - a contraction. Usage "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah...haze ignert. 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"
Bingo! The first school I taught at here in FL was a mixture of Ebonics and Y'allbonics. Actually about 65-70% Ebonics, 30-35% Y'allbonics. Made for some amazing courtyard fights during lunch breaks. :o I had just moved here from WV, so my life had a rude awakening. Life was never dull. I was constantly saying, "Excuse me, could you repeat that? " :D
what gets me is this--- the doctors here in the ER at palmetto general hospital---(basically a hispanic community---)they will speak in a mish -mash- of half english and half spanish---what ever is most convenient----and this can lead to trouble--in order to communicate you have to speak the language.-I wonder how the communication went ----when the island of manhattan was purchased for 24 dollars in trinkets----and I dont tink dey spoke like nooyawkaz do tuhday---