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Translating Southern United States Dialect 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 there boys shonuff are ignert!""
ALL - noun. A petroleum-based lubricant.
Usage: ""I shonuff hope my brother from Jawjuh puts some 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 thangs gonna catch far.""
BAHS - noun. A supervisor.
Usage: ""If you don't stop readin' these Southern wurds and git back ta work, yo bahs is gonna far you!""
TAR - noun. A rubber wheel.
Usage: ""Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a dang flat tar in my pickup truck.""
TIRE - noun. A tall monument.
Usage: ""Lord willing and the creek don't rise, I shonuff hope to see that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime.""
AIG - noun. a common breakfast food, usually laid by chickens.
Usage: ""I dis love eatin' good ol' aigs & bacon on Sundey mornins.
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.""
LAT - adjective. Luminescent.
Usage: ""I dream of Jeanie with the lat-brown hayer.""
FARN - adjective. Not local.
Usage: ""I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from some
farn country.""
DAYUD - adjective. Not alive.
Usage: ""He's dayud, Jim...they burd 'em over a week ago.""
AYER - noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in LA).
Usage: ""He caint breathe ... give 'em some ayer fer goodnuss sake!""
BOB WERE - noun. A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage: ""Boy,yu bes' stay 'way from that bob were fence.""
JU-HERE - a question.
Usage: ""Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys' coach Jimmy Johnson recently toured the University of Alabama?""
HAZE - a contraction meaning (he is.)
Usage: ""Is Bubba smart?"" ""Nah ... haze ignert.""
SEED - verb, past tense.
VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun meaning (have you.)
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 tax sucking bureaucratic institution.
Usage: ""Great ... ANNUDDER gummit shutdown!""