Language Humor

Southern from A-F

Jan 01, 1900
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Southern from A-F
How to speak as a native from the southern United States

Aig - what a hen lays

Aints - He's got aints in his paints

Paints - what cha put on your laigs of a mornin

Arn - Ma's tard of arnin

Bag - He bagged her to marry him

Bobbed - A bobbed wire fence

Bresh - He had a bresh with the law, and the law won.

Bub - the light bub burned out

Cheer - what you set in

Crick - a small stream

Clum - he sure clum that tree fastern any 'coon

Chiny - country over in Asia

Chuch duds - Sunday go-to-meetin clothes

Core - He got hisself a new Ford core

Cyow - Animal on Farm

Deppity - He helps out the shurf

Dribbed - He dribbed milk on his shirt

Dainz - Satidy night social

Ellum - A graceful tree

Fanger - what you put your rang on

Originally published November 14, 2002.

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