My brother jsust left for home in Alabama after a two week visit. He gave me lesson on how to speak southern and it went like this:

Hah Tu Spek Suthun:

BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow." Usage:
"My brother bard my pickup truck."

JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck."

MUNTS - noun. A calendar division. Usage: "My brother from
Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I taint herd from him in
munts."

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
doesn'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 to work, your bahs is gonna
far you!"

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."

TIRE - noun. A tall monument. Usage: "Lord willing and the
creeks don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in
Paris sometime."

RETARD - Verb. To stop working. Usage: "My granpaw retard at
age
65."

RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege. Usage: "We Southerners
are willing to fight for out rats."

FARN - adjective. Not local. Usage: "I cudnt unnerstand a wurd
he sed ... must be from some farn country."

JU-HERE - a question. Usage: "Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys'
coach Jimmy Johnson recently toured the University of Alabama?"

HAZE - a contraction. Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah ... haze
ignert."

VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun. Usage: "I ain't never seed
New York City ... view?"

GUMMIT - Noun. An often-closed bureaucratic institution. Usage:
"Great ... ANOTHER gummit shutdown!"

Edmond........go to http://www.taylor.k12.ga.us/%7Emharris/mharris.htm for a more complete Southern vocabulary. Click on Southernisms. My students and I compiled this list.

Ed & Farmer;
Those are great!

Edmond, is it like that in southern France too?

YOU CAN'T FORGET GEET IT'S PART OF A QUESTION.PARTAKING OF FOOD OR A MEAL. GEET YET??

Rike that Viet Nam too. Tower of Babre.