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