Friday, October 16, 2009

Basics of Texas Language

Everyone knows about y'all (everyone who matters) and boot-scootin (dancing) and dogies (little cattle), But you probably don't understand other common colloquialisms such as the fact that if a word has 2 syllables in regular English it probably has at least three in Tx if not more.
For instance, pee-on-cil is a pencil and a wa-ill is well ( a very key word in TX). To use it in a sentence " Wa-ill, if I had a pee-on-cill I could woo-urk ( work) the thangs on the tee-est(test). Other words are just different altogether. One would be card. Now you think you know what a card is but here it is used as " If ah (I) could fond (find) me a extension card (cord) Aye would plug in the blender for some magareetas Margaritas, which are great in every language.
That's your first lesson in Texan Language. When I first moved here I answered a lot of questions like, honey how ya feeeelin"? I would answer, "Fine". Finally I asked why everyone was so concerned about my health. A good friend from Oklahoma cued me in. She explained the everyone think I'm a Texan with a head cold. Everyone here seems to believe that an Okie sounds just like a Texan with a head cold. OK, in Oklahoma we do use some common words and sayings. I have never owned a wash cloth, but have had a lot of warsh cloths and warsh rags both in Oklahoma and Texas. I have gone feeshing ( fishing) in both states but in Oklahoma went to a crick (creek) or a pond. Here you go "salt" or "fresh" at a farm tank or the beach.
There are other things that vary. For instance I have never know anyone to ask anyone "if they sucked the heads?". It took me completely off my feet until I realized that they were referring to crawfish (in Oklahoma, crawdads or crayfish). I replied on I understood that I didn't wouldn't and that in Oklahoma we used them as bait and that we rarely ate our bait. That's it we have to carry some folks out to dinner ( take someone out to dinner) but we will surely have to keep the winders turned up because of the allergies fresh air is know to cause to the woman.
Y'all be good and I will be writing while burning the roads to the eaterie!

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