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Hoi toide on the Outer Banks : the story of the Ocracoke brogue / Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes.

High tide on the Outer Banks (other title)
Wolfram, Walt, 1941- (Author). Schilling-Estes, Natalie. (Added Author).

Summary:

"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]

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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Americanisms > North Carolina > Ocracoke Island.
English language > Dialects > North Carolina > Ocracoke Island.
Popular culture > North Carolina > Ocracoke Island.
Ocracoke Island (N.C.) > Social life and customs.

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