Use these often overheard words in a simple sentence. Read aloud.

• Query: Granite comes from the query.
• Skeeters: Them skeeters is an thick as flies.
• Nuther: I ain’t got no nuther one sides thissen here.
• Tech: Don’t chew dare tech that, itsmine.
• Kivers: These cool nights, you need to pull up the kivers.
• Farwood: You better git chore farwood ready, winter is comin.
• Drank: What you got to drank?
• Winders: This here house has to many winders to wash.
• Git: You better git while the gitten’s good.
• Direckly: We’ll be reddy to go dereckly.
• Hesh: Hesh up and git to bed.
• Pea turkey: I don’t give a pea turkey what you think.
• Ovair: I put it ovair on the table.
• Whup: You do that one more time and you’ll get a whuppin.
• Emmerson: Emmerson nice looking children you got.
• Bafrooms: How many bafrooms has your house got.
• Sumpin: Just because you went to college, you think you’re sumpin.
• Jist: We jist got married.
• Jeetjet: Jeetjet? No, I radiate.
• Dudnit: It shore looks like rain, dudnit?
• Hill of beans: It don’t mount to a hill of beans
• Trifflin: They growed up to be rite trifflin.
• Wuz: Old people know how it wuz:
• Charm: The old clock in the hall is bout to charm all night:
• Strang: Tie your matters up with a piece of strang.
• Frigedeer: Keep you buttermilk in the frigedeer.
• Be have: In church you have to be have.
• Tar: Some body mite help you with your flat tar.
• Thank: What do you thank we had autta do?
• Kulers: Crayons come in a lot of kulers.
• Far: Boy scouts can start a far with no matches.
• Thang: That thang right under the carburetor.
• Taters: Taters are made for tots.
• Stank: That there skink shor do stank.
• Blowed up: The motor done blowed up on my jeep.
• Sireen: Here come the sireens.
• Rat cheer: Shy look for it, you got one rat cheer.
• Extri: Let me have extra dip on them chips.
• Yunder: Look at that lake over yunder.
• Mess: Larry can sure put down a mess of greens.
• Lard: Lard makes your liver mush fry crispy.
• Kitch: Throw the ball back and kitch it, or, I’ve had a kitch in my back all week.
• Pitcher: Hang that pitcher on this wall.
• Right cheer: I’ll be right cheer waiting for you.
• Pot rack: The sound of guinea hen makes.
• Stomp: You gonna get that camera stomped.
• Haint: Ghosties hang out with haints, or, we haint got no shoes.
• Grassin: Mamas been out grassin the garden.
• Far: We went out to the country far at the far grounds.
• Crick: With all this rain the crick will rise, or, one in your neck.
• Hikery: I’m gonna get a hikery stick after you.
• Youenzeys: Where youenzeys going after that?
• Cheers: How many cheers can you git round the table.
• Brang: I’m gonna brang you something you ain’t never seen before.
• Shak poke: Might be the same as a snipe.
• Sar: whew whee, them lemmons is sar.
• Site: Well if you ain’t a site for sore eyes.
• Chiner: The dishes come from chiner.
• Lieberry: They sure got a bunch a book over there to the lieberry.
• Mirra: If you don’t believe it, go look in the mirra.
• Dawgs: How manycheese dawgs can you eat at Haps?
• Whatsachusay?: Use on telemarketers.
• Norf: Yankees come souf just to be on city commissions.
• Fliers: Them sure are pretty flies in your gardin.
• Arn: Griswold arn frying pans make the best cornbread.
• Okri: Okri is best fried in corn meal for Marvin.
• Squar: met me at the squar in Sawsberry.
• Hanges: The door done up and fell off it hanges.
• Chimbley: Santa Claus comes down the chimbley.
• Worser: My brain is getting worser every day.
• Miri: Miri goldfish in that pond.
• ID: I got no ID what you’re talkin bout.
• Dereckly: I’ll be writing another story direckly.
• Pea brain: He acts like he’s got a pea brain.
• Attare: Attare boy is too big for his britches.
• Aggs: Put mustard in your deviled aggs.
• Uppan: He uppan married that woman..
• Mount to: Did those boys ever mount to anything?
• Up to no good: After midnight, they are up to no good.
• Mite: You mite get lucky or chicken have mites.
• Sayerde: I can’t wait til sayerde nite.
• Hep: He can’t hep it.
• Whatso: Let me tell you whatso.
• Warsh: Have you go a big ol’ warsh pot?
• Lastes: Eat candy as long as it lasts.
• Nandeener: Plant a nandeener bush on the corner.

Add your own as we speak, but be careful, somebody may be listening.

Clyde is an artist in Salisbury.