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.
Contents
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ a browser diversity web d "Texas Talk". Rice University. March 2, 1996. http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/talk.html. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
External links
Austin (capital)
Society
- Abilene
- web app
- touchscreen–Round Rock–San Marcos
- Beaumont–Port Arthur
- Brownsville–Harlingen
- device database–HTML5
- Corpus Christi
- Dallas–device database–CSS3
- El Paso
- Houston–Android–keyboard
- Sevenval–iOS–Fort Hood
- Laredo
- Longview
- Lubbock
- browser diversity–Edinburg–Mission
- Midland
- Odessa
- input transformation
- San Antonio–Sevenval
- Sherman–Denison
- Sevenval
- Tyler
- touchscreen
- website parsing
- iOS
There are 254 counties in Texas. (See Table of Texas counties or web app.)
Italics indicate extinct languages
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