Texan Talk

The Official Primer of Elementary Texan

ALL: petroleum..........................................“They found all on mah land!”
ARE: sixty minutes....................................“Ah’ll meet yew thar in about a are!”
ARN: a metallic element...........................“Mah muscle is as strong as arn!”
AST: past tense of the verb ‘to ask’........“Who ast yew?”
BANES: a type of food...............................“Ah love pinto banes!”
BEAN: a living person................................“He’s a rawt nawce human bean!”
CARD: a person lacking courage..............“Yew yella bellawed card!”
DOLL: operate a telephone......................“Jes doll me up sometime!”
ERROR: used with a bow.........................“Ah shot a error into the air!”
FAVOR: have a temperature...................“Ah’m sick! Ah got a favor!”
GRAIN: a color...........................................“It’s jes grain as grass!”
HARE: a place or to listen.........................“Can yew hare me now?”
KAINT: contraction for cannot................“Yew kaint do that!”
KWAT: lacking noise.................................“Ah want pace and kwat aroun’ hare!”
LAGS: the lower limbs..............................“She got the cutest lags in town!”
LANE: to incline.........................................“Lane it upside the wall!”
LIBEL: likely..............................................“Yur libel t’git snockered drinkin’ RC!”
LON: a large feline....................................“The lon is the king of the jungle!”
NODE: past tense of ‘to know’.................“I node him for years!”
PAR: energy...............................................“Solar par is downright unAmerican!”
PAWN: on top of........................................“Put yer guns pawn the table!”
PAYPUL: a body of persons....................“Who are all these paypul?”
SAR: having a tart taste...........................“Boy, that lemon is sar!”
SENSE: from a past time..........................“It’s a are sense I had a RC!”
SEP: to omit................................................“Everybody get a RC sep yew!”
SLAVE: part of a garment........................“It’s a long slave shirt!”
STALE: to take feloniously.......................“Thou shalt not stale!”
STARS: a flight of steps............................“Jes go up them stars!”
TUTHER: of two or more.........................“Yew can take one or tuther!”
WARSH: to clean with water...................“Go warsh yur hands!”
WOOF: doglike animal.............................“Who’s afraid of the big bag woof?”
WUNST: at one time.................................“Ah used ta node her wunst!”