Hoi toide on the Outer Banks : the story of the Ocracoke brogue / Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes.
"Hoi toide," for those unfamiliar with the brogue, is Ocracoker for "high tide." As many visitors to the island are quick to observe, this vibrant dialect - with its unusual pronunciation, vocabulary, and syntax - is one of Ocracoke's most distinctive cultural features. In Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes set out to research the brogue and encourage the preservation and celebration of an important part of a community's rich heritage. Its authors trace the dialect's history and identify its unique features - even providing a glossary and quiz to augment the reader's knowledge of Ocracoke speech. In the process, they also explore some larger questions on language and the role it plays in a culture's efforts to define and maintain itself.
Record details
- ISBN: 080782318X
- ISBN: 9780807823187
- ISBN: 0807846260
- ISBN: 9780807846261
- Physical Description: xiv, 165 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1997]
- Copyright: ©1997
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-162) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1. The Roots of Ocracoke English -- 2. What's in an O'cocker Word? -- 3. Sounding Like a "Hoi Toider" -- 4. Saying a Word or Two -- 5. No Dialect Is an Island -- 6. Ebb Tide for Hoi Toide? -- 7. The Voices of Ocracoke -- App. An Ocracoke IQ Test: Or, How to Tell a Dingbatter from an O'cocker.
- Target Audience Note:
- 1330L Lexile
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"Hoi toide," for those unfamiliar with the brogue, is Ocracoker for "high tide." As many visitors to the island are quick to observe, this vibrant dialect - with its unusual pronunciation, vocabulary, and syntax - is one of Ocracoke's most distinctive cultural features. In Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes set out to research the brogue and encourage the preservation and celebration of an important part of a community's rich heritage. Its authors trace the dialect's history and identify its unique features - even providing a glossary and quiz to augment the reader's knowledge of Ocracoke speech. In the process, they also explore some larger questions on language and the role it plays in a culture's efforts to define and maintain itself.
