: #Laughs Atlanta School BoardThe Atlanta School Board, feeling left out by the fuss over Ebonics, has decided to designate Southern slang, or "Hickphonics," as a language to be taught in all Southern schools.

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#Laughs Atlanta School BoardThe Atlanta School Board, feeling left out by the fuss over Ebonics, has decided to designate Southern slang, or "Hickphonics," as a language to be taught in all Southern schools.

Here are excerpts from the Hickphonics/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 ain't 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 tight'nin' 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 don't change the all in my pickup truck, that things gonna catch far."BAHS -- noun.

A supervisor.Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern words and git back towork (or studying), your bahs is gonna far you!"TAR -- noun.

A rubber wheel.Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."TIRE -- noun.

A tall monument.Usage: "Lord willin' and the creek don't 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 orcombat.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 farncountry."DID -- adjective.

Not alive.Usage: "He's did, Jim."EAR -- noun.

A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in LA).

Usage: "He cain't 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 cump'ny?"HAZE -- a contraction.Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah...

haze ignert." SEED -- verb, past tense.VIEW -- contraction: verb and pronoun.Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City...

view?"