GUIDE TO SOUTHERN
TALK
The Southern vocabulary is similar to the
rest of the Nation's - it only sounds different. The following is a sample to help all
Yankees, in hope that it will teach them how to talk right.
Ah - The things you see with.
Aig - Which came first, the chicken or the
aig?
Arn - An electrical instrument used to
remove wrinkles from clothing.
Ay-rab - The people who inhabit much of
North Africa.
Bawl - What water does.
Bidness - The art of selling something for
more than you paid for it.
Bobbycue - A delectable Southern sandwich
of chopped pork, cole slaw, and a fiery sauce.
Bud - Small feathered creature that flies.
Cheer - A piece of furniture used for
sitting.
Chekatawfarya - Heard at service stations
in small
Southern towns.
Co-Cola - Soft drink.
Crine - Weeping.
Dawfins - Name of the professional football
team in
Miami.
Daints - A more or less formal event in
which members of the opposite sex hold each other and move rhythmically to the south of
music.
Doc - A condition caused by the absence of
light.
Etlanna - The city General Sherman burned
during the war for Southern independence.
Everthang - All-encompassing.
Far - A state of combustion that produces
heat and light.
Foller - Spies and private detectives spend
a lot of time doing this.
Git - To acquire.
Goff- A game played with clubs and a little
white ball.
Gull - A young female.
Hale - Where General Sherman went for what
he did to Etlanna.
Hep - To aid or benefit.
Idinit - "Mighty hot today,
idinit?"
Keer - To be concerned.
Lieberry - A building containing thousands
of literary works.
Moanin - Between daybreak and noon.
Motuhsickle - A two-wheeled missile with a
powerful engine.
Munts - The 12 units into which the
calendar year is divided.
Nawth - Any part of the country outside of
the South.
Nekkid - To be unclothed.
Ovair - In that direction.
Own - Instead of awf.
Phrasin - Very cold.
Pitcher - An image, either drawn or
photographed.
Sebmup - Soft drink similar to ginger ale.
Show - "It show is hot today."
Spearmint - Something scientist do.
Stow - Place where things are sold.
Tal - What you dry off with after you take
a share.
Tar - Round inflatable object that
sometimes goes flat.
Uhmukin - Someone who lives in the United
States of Uhmurka.
Zackly - Precisely.
 
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