Hoi toide on the Outer Banks : the story of the Ocracoke brogue /

"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 H...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wolfram, Walt, 1941-
Other Authors: Schilling-Estes, Natalie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
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)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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