Dr. Roger L. Haggard

 

Fo' all you'uns who make fun of the way I speak...here ya' go.
And for we'uns who speak thisa way...take heart...you ain't alone. :)

The Atlanta School Board is designating Southern slang, or "Hickphonics," as a language to be taught in all Southern schools. Here are excerpts from the Hickphonics/English dictionary:

AH - noun. Organ located on your face which allows you to see.
Usage: Ah think ah got sump'n in mah ah.

AINT - noun. Sister of your mother or father.
Usage: Bubba, come own over here and give yer Aint Bee a big hug.

ETLANNA - noun. Capital city of Georgia.
Usage: My fambly wuz here back when that Nothun dawg Sherman come thu Etlanna.

ARN - noun. Heated appliance you use to get wrinkles out of clothes.
Usage: I wuz amost t'the tent meetin' when I done realize' I lef the arn on.

YOUNG'N - noun. Offspring.
Usage: I heard Daisy Sue had a young'n six months after she and Elroy got hitched.

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 Etlanna.
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 Etlanna, 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.
Usage: Ah seed him at th' feed sto.

GUMMIT - Noun. A bureaucratic institution.
Usage: "Them gummit boys shore are ignert."

 

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Last updated: February 01, 2006