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My additions to Hickphonics list comes from the 6 months we lived in Oklahoma and I heard this "Okie word" alot: HEP....as in "Can ya'll hep me understand this Yankee woeman?" Plleezse!! YEP ...the positive answer to the above question. Jeanette Fuhr 48/dx Nov 97 Darwin Hawkins said: > As most of you know, I was born and raised in Arkansas (a fact I hate to > admit anymore). However, my three sons were born Texans and then we later > moved to Kansas at the time they were in elementary school, so they never > developed the accent their Dad and Mom have. As a result, in addition to all > the engineer jokes, I gotta live with stuff like the following from them: > > HICKPHONICS > > Little Rock, Arkansas educators, after learning that Oakland, California > educators have started classes teaching ethnic slang, have decided there is > also a need to designate southern slang as a geographic language. > > Ergo, "Hickphonics" -- Here is a sampling from the new Arkansas > Hickphonics dictionary now being compiled: > 1.) HEIDI - noun. greeting. > 2.) HIRE YEW - complete sentence. remainder of greeting. Usage: "Heidi, > hire yew?" > 3.) BARD - verb. past tense of "to borrow". Usage: "My brother bard my > pickup truck." > 4.) JAWJUH - noun. a state just north of Florida. Capital is Lanna. > Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck." > 5.) BAMMER - noun. state just west of Jawjuh. Usage: "A tornader went > thru bammer 'n left $20 million in improvements." > 6.) MUNTS - noun. a calendar division. Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh > bard my pickup truck and I ain't herd from him in munts." > 7.) THANK - verb. ability to cognitively process. Usage: "Ah thank ah'll > have a bare." > 8.) BARE - noun. an alcoholic beverage. Usage: "Ah thank ah'll have a > bare." > 9.) IGNERT - adjective. not smart. see "Arkansas native". Usage: "Some > of those Bammer boys sure are ignert." > 10.) RANCH - noun. a tool used for tight'nin' bolts. Usage: "I thank I > left my ranch in the back of my pickup truck that my brother from Jawjuh > bard a few munts ago." > 11.) ALL - noun. a petroleum-based product. Usage: "I sure hope my > brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck." > 12.) FAR - noun. a conflagration. Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh > don't change the all in the pickup truck he bard, that thangs gonna > catch far." > 13.) TAR - noun. a rubber wheel. Usage: "I hope my brother from Jawjuh > don' git a flat tar in my pickup truck." > 14.) TARRED - adverb. Exhausted. Usage: "I just flew in from Lanna, and > boy are my arms tarred." > 15.) FARN - adjective. not from here. Usage: "I can't unnerstant a wurd > he sed. He must be from sum farn cuntry." > 16.) DID - adjective. not alive. Usage: "He ain't breathin.' Must be > did." > 17.) EAR - noun. a colorless gas (except in LA.) Usage: "I'm gonna go > outside fer some fresh ear!" > 18.) BOB WAR - noun. a sharp twisted cable. Usage: "Stay away from that > bob war fence." > 19.) JEW HERE - noun and verb contraction. Usage: "Jew here that my > brother from Jawjuh got a job with that bob war fence company?" > 20.) HAZE - a contraction. Usage: "Is Bubba smart? Nah, haze ignert. > 21.) SEED - verb. past tense of see. > 22.) VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun. Usage: "I ain't never seed > New York City...view?" > 23.) GUMMIT - noun. a bureaucratic state or federal institution. Usage: > "them gummit boys sure are ignert."