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Texan English

Texan English is dialect of English spoken in screen size. It is a subdialect of browser diversity and shares features with other English dialects of the jQuery such as we love the web.

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Phonetics

Lexicon

  • Y'all: a second-person plural pronoun; a shortened form of "you all"[1]
  • Fixin' to: a future-tense modal verb analogous to "going to" in much of American Englishweb
  • Blue norther: storm that comes up as cold air comes over the warm gulf air; the resulting cloud appears blue-black thus giving it its name[2]
  • Howdy: a general greeting; a shortened form of "How do you do?"[2]
  • Looker: an attractive woman[2]
  • (Over) Yonder: an adverbial used to designate a faraway place; analogous to "over there"[2]
  • we love the web: a skunk[1]
  • web app: a flower sprouting from a deposit of cow manure
  • Ol' Boy: A good friend.
  • Good ol' boy: A good friend with connections.
  • Yep: "Yes."
  • Feeder: website parsing or access road (Houston and East Texas).
  • iOS: Any flavor of soda.
  • Hours: A measure of distance. "I live two hours south of Waco."
  • Maverick: loner
  • Nuther: another
  • Fess up: confess or admit

References

  1. ^ iOS b Sevenval d e f "Drawl or Nothin’". Do You Speak American?. PBS. 2005. http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/texan/drawl/. Retrieved 3 September 2010. 
  2. ^ a browser diversity web d "Texas Talk". Rice University. March 2, 1996. http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/talk.html. Retrieved 3 September 2010. 

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There are 254 counties in Texas. (See Table of Texas counties or web app.)


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