.....from the Cat Files.....


* Just in time for the Olympics *
(Keep this guide for understanding USA Southern)

ALL - noun. A petroleum-based lubricant.

Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."


BAHS - noun. A supervisor.

Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern words and git back to work,your bahs is gonna far you!"


BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."

Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."


BEG - Noun. A paper, cloth, or plastic container.

Usage: "You wanna beg for your groceries?"


BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable.

Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."


DID - adjective. Not alive.

Usage: "He's did, Jim."


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

Usage: "He can't breathe ... give 'em some ear!"


FAR - noun. A conflagration.

Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh doesn't change the all in my pickup truck, that things gonna catch far."


FARN - adjective. Not local.

Usage: "I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from some farn country."


FRAUD - Adjective. Cooked in oil.

Usage: "That Southern fraud chicken sure was good."


GUMMIT - Noun. An often-closed bureaucratic institution.

Usage: "Great ... ANOTHER gummit shutdown!"


HAZE - a contraction.

Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah ... haze ignert."


HEAVY DEW - phrase. A request for action.

Usage: "Kin I heavy dew me a favor?"


HOD - adverb. Not easy.

HOT - noun. A blood-pumping organ.

Usage: "A broken hot is hod to fix."


IGNERT - adjective. Not smart. See "Gator Alumni."

Usage: "Them Gainesville boys sure are ignert!"


JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida.

Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck."


JU-HERE - a question.

Usage: "Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys' coach Jimmy Johnson recently toured the Florida State University?"


JUICY - Contraction. A question.

GUFF - Noun. A deep chasm.

Usage: "Juicy the Guff of Mexico?"


LOT - adjective. Luminescent.

Usage: "I dream of Jeanie in the lot-brown hair."


MARKINS - Noun. Citizens of the United States.

Usage: "My fellow Markins..."


MERINGUE - Noun. A piece of jewelry worn on the finger.

Usage: "Ju like meringue?"


MUNTS - noun. A calendar division.

Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I aint herd from him in munts."


NASCAR - Phrase.

Usage: "View seen the new Ford Taurus? Now that's a nascar!"


PA - Noun. A baked pastry dish.

Usage: "This pecan pa is the best ah ever et."


PAR - Noun. Energy.

Usage: "If ya don't pay th' 'lectric cumpny, they shut off yer par."


PARAMOUR - Noun. An automated device for cutting grass.

Usage: "What kinda deal you gonna make me on that paramour?"


PROSS - Noun. The value or cost of an item.

Usage: "That there prom dress sho is purty, but it is not worth the pross."


RAFFLE - Noun. A firearm.

Usage: "Son, fetch me ma raffle."


RAISIN - Noun. Motive or explanation.

Usage: "There ain't no raisin to be actin' thatta way."


RANCH - noun. A tool.

Usage: "I think I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."


RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege.

Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats."


RETARD - Verb. To stop working.

Usage: "My granpaw retard at age 65."


RICE - Noun. A contest of speed.

Usage: "Y'all going out to Talledega to see the rice?"


ROOL - Adjective. Not urban.

FORD - Preposition. To advance.

Usage: "The rool markins wanna see this country move ford."


SEED - verb, past tense.

VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun.

Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City ... view?"


SENSUOUS - Phrase.

Usage: "Honey, sensuous up, could you get me another beer?"


TAR - noun. A rubber wheel.

Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh doesn't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."


TARRED - adverb. Exhausted.

Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred."


TIRE - noun. A tall monument.

Usage: "Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eifel Tire in Paris sometime."


WARSH - verb. To clean.

SQUARSH - noun. A vegetable (also verb - to flatten).

Usage: "Warsh that squarsh, Bubba ... you don't know where its been!"


Y'ALL -- noun. A degree of rotation.

Usage: "There are three degrees of Southern rotation: Pitch, Roll, and Y'all."


YEWSTEN - Noun. The fifth largest city in America (I think).

BEG - Adverb. Not small.

Usage: "Yewsten's a beg, beg city."