Hoi toide on the Outer Banks : the story of the Ocracoke brogue / Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes
- Author
- Wolfram, Walt, 1941-
- Additional Titles
- High tide on the Outer Banks
- Published
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1997]
- Copyright Date
- ©1997
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 165 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Additional Creators
- Schilling, Natalie
Access Online
- Contents
- Cover Page -- Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- Epigraphs -- 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 -- Appendix An Ocracoke IQ Test Or, How to Tell a Dingbatter from an O'cocker -- References and Bibliographic Notes -- Index.
- 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
- Subject(s)
- English language—Dialects—North Carolina—Ocracoke Island
- English language—Dialects—North Carolina—Outer Banks
- Americanisms—North Carolina—Ocracoke Island
- Americanisms—North Carolina—Outer Banks
- Anglais (Langue)—Dialectes—Caroline du Nord—Outer Banks
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES—General
- Language and languages
- Americanisms
- English language—Dialects
- Social conditions
- Mundart
- Ocracoke Island (N.C.)—Social conditions
- Outer Banks (N.C.)—Social conditions
- Ocracoke Island (N.C.)—Languages
- Outer Banks (N.C.)—Languages
- Outer Banks (Car. du N.)—Conditions sociales
- Outer Banks (Car. du N.)—Langues
- North Carolina—Ocracoke Island
- North Carolina—Outer Banks
- North Carolina—Ost
- USA—Südstaaten
- North Carolina (Ost)
- ISBN
- 0807866377 (electronic bk.)
9780807866375 (electronic bk.)
080782318X (alk. paper)
0807846260 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807823187 (alk. paper)
9780807846261 (pbk. ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-162) and index.
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