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Just In Time For The Reunion

"Down Home Texas Talk"
Aholt: get in touch with; as in "I'll get aholt of him"
Bob Warr Fants: something to keep cattle in the pasture
Born: a building on a rayanch
Brayud: something you make a sangweech with
Camer: a thang you take pitchers with
Hay Und: something that holds your five fingers
Hayud: where you keep your brains
Hayut: something you wear on your hayud
Lektrit Fayun: something you plug in to make breezes blow
Libary: a place whurr you check out books
Mals: measure of distance
Maon: like "Ah don't need a ride, ah has maon cawur"
Meer: a looking glass
Merkan Cissen: one born in the USA
Pan: a place where one serves a life sentence
Pay Un: a thang used to cook in
Punchard Tar: something that goes flat when you don't have a spare
Ranch: something to take a nut off a bolt with
Rat Cheer: in this very place
Rat Naow: immediately if not sooner
Rat Tare: a little south of Rat Cheer
Rayanch: an piece of property over fifty thousand acres
Rinch: when you soak your clothes in clear water
Sangweech: something made with two pieces of brayud
Tal: a thang you dries dishes with after they have been rinched
Tant: a thang that holds a circus
Tarred: plum tuckered out
Warr Plars: something you cut a fants with
Whan: like "Whan yuh comin tuh see me?"
Whurr: like "whurr's muh hayut?"
Woosh: like "Ah woosh you would be muh sweethort, Mary Lou"

George
(Maybe Dave can make copies of this and post them around the campsite.)

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