The Atlanta School Board, feeling left out by the fuss over "Ebonics," has decided to designate Southern slang, or "Hickphonics," as alanguage to be taught in all Southern schools. Here are excerpts from theHickphonics/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 aint herd from him in munts." IGNERT — adjective. Not smart. See "Arkansas native."
Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are ignert!" RANCH — noun. A tool used for tightnin bolts.
Usage: "I think I 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 dont change the all in my pickup truck, that things gonna catch far." BAHS — noun. A supervisor.
Usage: "If you dont stop reading these Southern words and git back to work (or studying), your bahs is gonna far you!" TAR — noun. A rubber wheel.
Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh dont git a flat tar in my pickup truck." TIRE — noun. A tall monument.
Usage: "Lord willin and the creek dont 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." FAT — noun, verb. 1. a battle or combat. 2. to engage in battle or combat. 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: "Hes did, Jim." EAR — noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in LA).
Usage: "He caint breath … 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 cumpny?" HAZE — a contraction.
Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah… haze ignert." SEED — verb, past tense. VIEW — contraction: verb and pronoun.
Usage: "I aint never seed New York City… view?" HEAVY DEW — phrase. A request for action.
Usage: "Kin I heavy dew me a favor?" GUMMIT — noun. A bureaucratic institution.
Usage: "Them gummit boys shore are ignert."