| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 165 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-162) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
|
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- Dialects -- North Carolina -- Ocracoke Island
|
|
English language -- Dialects -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks
|
|
Americanisms -- North Carolina -- Ocracoke Island
|
|
Americanisms -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks
|
|
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
|
|
Language and languages
|
|
Americanisms
|
|
English language -- Dialects
|
|
Social conditions
|
|
Mundart
|
| SUBJECT |
Ocracoke Island (N.C.) -- Social conditions
|
|
Outer Banks (N.C.) -- Social conditions
|
|
Ocracoke Island (N.C.) -- Languages
|
|
Outer Banks (N.C.) -- Languages
|
| Subject |
North Carolina -- Ocracoke Island
|
|
North Carolina -- Outer Banks
|
|
North Carolina -- Ost
|
|
USA -- Südstaaten
|
|
North Carolina (Ost)
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Schilling-Estes, Natalie.
|
| LC no. |
96032653 |
| ISBN |
0807866377 |
|
9780807866375 |
|
