AH – noun. Yourself.
Usage: "Ah got a pickup truck."
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 Ah aint herd from him in munts."
RANCH – noun. A tool.
Usage: "Ah think Ah 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 thing's 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, Ah hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."
TIRE – noun. A tall monument.
Usage: "Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, Ah sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in
IGNERT – adjective. Not smart. See "Auburn Alumni."
Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure is ignert!"
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: "Ah just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred."
RATS – noun. Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: "Us Southerners is willin' to fight for our rats."
LOT – adjective. Luminescent.
Usage: "Ah dream of Jeanie in the lot-brown hair."
FARN – adjective. Not local.
Usage: "Ah cudn't unnerstand a wurd he sed … must be from some farn country."
DID – adjective. Not alive.
Usage: "He's did, Jim."
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
HAZE – a contraction.
Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah … haze ignert."
SEED – verb, past tense.
VIEW – contraction: verb and pronoun.
Usage: "Ah ain't never seed
HEAVY DEW – phrase. A request for action.
Usage: "Kin Ah heavy dew me a favor?"
GUMMIT – Noun. An often-closed bureaucratic institution.
Usage: "Great … ANOTHER gummit shutdown!"