More Thangs

[Ronald R Shiflet]

Jim, Avery & list,
	Here's some more 'thangs with their respective definitions.
Ron

>Subject: Language Skills

Translating Southern United States to English
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  BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
  Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

  JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida.
  Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck."

  MUNTS - noun. A calendar division.
  Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I aint herd
  from him in munts."

  IGNERT - adjective. Not smart. See "Auburn Alumni."
  Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are ignert!"

  RANCH - noun. A tool.
  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 doesn'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!"

  TAR - noun. A rubber wheel.
  Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh doesn't git a
  flat tar in my pickup truck."

  TIRE - noun. A tall monument.
  Usage: "Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I sure do hope to
  see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."

  HOT - noun. A blood-pumping organ.
  HOD - adverb. Not easy.
  Usage: "A broken hot is hod to fix."

  RETARD - Verb. To stop working.
  Usage: "My granpaw retard at age 65."

  TARRED - adverb. Exhausted.
  Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred."

  RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege.
  Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats."

  LOT - adjective. Luminescent.
  Usage: "I dream of Jeanie in the lot-brown hair."

  FARN - adjective. Not local.
  Usage: "I cudnt 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 can't breathe ... give 'em some ear!"

  BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable.
  Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."

  JU-HERE - a question.
  Usage: "Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys' coach Jimmy Johnson
  recently toured the University of Alabama?"

  HAZE - a contraction.
  Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah ... haze ignert."

  SEED - verb, past tense.
  VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun.
  Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City ... view?"

  HEAVY DEW - phrase. A request for action.
  Usage: "Kin I heavy dew me a favor?"

  GUMMIT - Noun. An often-closed bureaucratic institution.
  Usage: "Great ... ANOTHER gummit shutdown!"