I am from western North Carolina, and can remember when I was in 5th grade in school, getting a new student in the classroom, who ended up being my best friend that year. She never said a word her first week. Then when I finally heard talk I couldn't get over her British accent. I told her I just love her cool British accent. She nicely informed me she wasn't British, she was born and raised down at the obx, to be precise Nags Head. I was like that's cool.
Thank y'all so much for putting this on youtube. My family is from Nag's Head and I've been living in Asia the last 8 years. Drinking whisky, thinking about my dead grandparents and crying tonight. Just hearing people talking like real folks is so good to my soul.
It's funny how different someone in the mountains sounds from someone in the piedmont, and from the tidewater to the OBX. When someone says "southern accent" I'm like "which state, and which region in that state?"
When it comes to regional accents, North Carolina has more than any other state, and is even comparable to the UK, which is well known for having a rich diversity of regional accents all across the country.
@@Regularbeerreviews you ain't lying. Y'all's Appalachian English is different than ours over here. I cross the state line into Murphy and the dialect changes.
I am from here and I don't think that the brogue will ever end. I am 29 and I have it !!! Everyone has there own way of speaking that is what makes us unique!!!!! Don't talk trash unless you know what you are talking about!!!..
A considerable amount of the people who moved to OBX from Jameston VA were criminals who wanted to distance themselves from the law. Appalachian accents are of course quite different, but Europeans migrated there about the same time. Don't forget Europeans aren't the first people in the land now known as NC. Cherokee, Catawba, Lumbee, and other Indian tribes have their own accents. And then there's Gullah & Geechee
@@travisweldmaster7815 that's what they said about Cajuns and Kouri Vini, but hey where ya at?? Still chillin and speakin that old dialect I bet. Everytime they say we're dead we seem to pop up again ✌️
I hope the folks out on the barrier islands keep on talking like they've proudly done for eons. I think the coastal brogue accent is awesome, just one more thing that makes North Carolina unique. A bunch of people I've met in other states that have travelled our coast don't make fun of brogue speaking people. If anything, they're fascinated that English influence has lasted all these years. But again, the Carolina coast was one of the very first areas colonized by England, so there's good reason for the accent.
to me it is lovely, my ear hears every sentence switch between a regular South East American sound to a middle English accent (ie the old accent spoken between Norfolk and Cornwall)
that old guy playing the guitar's name is mr Roy Parsons. i spent a large chunk of my childhood on ocracoke island. Mr Roy taught me so much about life when i was little. unfortunately mr roy passed away but his memory lives on
Simply because of the isolation. That first guy is from harker's island (about 10 mins from me) People there don't really leave, and new people don't really go in. So, the language is fairly preserved, and is actually one of the closest to The King's English. (as studied by UNC)
Grandma talked a little bit like this. A Beaufort native, and family was there many generations. Theses days its a bit of a tourist trap, but still my favorite part of the country.
@@MattMangels In the book America, by Tindall and Shi, they attest that the American accent was heavily influenced by East Anglian people, often Puritan farming people, going to America right at the start of the colonial period.
I as a child spent a lot of time, every summer with my daddy who was from Sea Level which is right next-door to Atlantic. when i hear this beautiful dialect spoken it is music to my ears. I love it down east, i love it with all my heart.. there is no other dialect of English that is more music then this... I love these people. I can trace my ancestry on my father side since before the Revolutionary war.. I pray and home that this dialect never dies out..
+Sew Sallysew I was born at Sea Level when it was a hospital. It's now a nursing home. I grew up in Gloucester which is about 45 min away. It's a small unincorporated community. My family on my mother's side is from there Chadwicks and Davis. They are descendants of some of the first settlers there, mostly fishermen and farmers. It's an island area, with you having to cross the North River bridge. Before then things were brought from Beaufort on skows, flat bottom boats. My grandfather had the first truck over there, also brought over on a skow. When the bridge was built he delivered ice, coal in the winter and had a vegetable field that he sold things from. To really hear true down east broge you should go to Harkers Island, another island across the sound from Beaufort and about 5 miles from Gloucester. We call ourselves hightiders too. We say it like hoityders. I loved growing up down there. I live in Morehead City now 40 min away. No one except the before mentioned folks at Salter Path talk like that now but for a few older folks. Look up the history of Diamond City on the outer banks near Morehead City and the "Promised Land" they were offered for moving off the outer banks.
Brit here. The first chap sounds more english than american. the others less so. the guy from 4 mins though almost could've grown up in suffolk! I hope it survives. great stuff
I didnt know people were so fascinated in how we talk, this has got me tickeled, I can't get "oer it" lol who knows where "yonder" is or "narry" Haha I'm family with several this crowd, this has absolutely tickeld me to death
@@travisweldmaster7815 Because your accents are literally time capsules. I'm from England and these accents are nearly all west country to me (western England). I can hear a tiny American right at the end of their sentences.
Be proud of how you talk and your heritage....there are very few good people left these days and you folks are the salt of the earth. I am from the south, the piedmont region of NC but my southern dialect is a southern drawl that outsiders think me to be slow slow in wit but I manage pretty doggone quick to show them I can outwit them. My wife is a Syracuse NY yankee and I am a southern rebel boy and people are amazed at us. I tell them we are an interracial couple ha ha. We manage.......she has not tried to change who I am and I know better than to try to change her. We are going to the banks in a month or so and I can't wait to see you folks. Stay forever who you are. God bless you.
An estimated 90% of Appalachia's earliest European settlers originated from the Anglo-Scottish border country- namely the English counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, Northumberland, Durham, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, and the Lowland Scottish counties of Ayrshire, Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, and Wigtownshire. Most of these were from families who had been resettled in the Ulster Plantation in northern Ireland in the 17th century
Today, Scotch-Irish is an Americanism almost unknown in England, Ireland or Scotland. The term is somewhat unclear because some of the Scotch-Irish have little or no Scottish ancestry at all, as a large number of dissenter families had also been transplanted to Ulster from northern England. Smaller numbers of migrants also came from the southeast of England,
A few years ago, there was a documentary on the language of the Outer Banks. It claimed that the original language came from Devon, England. Having been brought up there and a stones throw from Sir Walter Raleigh was born, I agree with the show. My granddaughters now live in the area, an I understand the locals.
Cool! So great to be able to record diverse accents, since accents and dialects are always changing and shifting. I've never heard this one before, and it's a delight to listen to.
Love this...I'm from East End if Long Island and we sound a lot like you..We are Lester( posey) ...my half brother married a wimen Belva Rose ..I forget the name of man that lived on Harkers Island that made model boat .. I'm thinking of moving to NC ...
the difference is that Long Islanders don't front their long O vowels because there is not as much West Country English influence there. the West Country English sound starts to get strong in central Jersey and continues all the way down to Orlando
The dance has origins in England. In the fifteenth century the all-wooden clog was replaced by a leather-topped shoe with a one-piece wooden bottom. By the 16th century a more conventional leather shoe with separate wooden pieces on the heel and toe called "flats" became popular, from where the terms "heel and toe" and "flatfooting" derive.
I had a massive crush on a boy from Nag's Head in middle school... I loved the way he talked but I had never been able to figure out if it was an accent or just a him thing... never knew it was a whole dialect, although I have family members from the outer banks area so I've already been familiar with it without knowing even though I live in the city... just listening to them definitely makes me think of some people in my family who talk in a very similar way... nc is so much cooler than anyone gives it credit for
The mention of Australian accent makes me hear it. There is some pronunciations, especially vowels, that jump out at me and sound like what I'm used to (yes, I'm Aussie).
@@GroundandPound9 likely pre-vowel shift, that happened in the 1700's, but after most of the convicts had already wound up in Australia. Hence, Australians retained the vowels that were common before the shift. "Chine" instead of "chain" for instance.
Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) Americans are the descendants of Presbyterian and other Protestant dissenters from the Irish province of Ulster who migrated to North America during the 18th and 19th centuries. Most of the Scotch-Irish were descended from Scottish and English families who colonized Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th century
The term 'Celtic' is an 18th century term first invented by Edward Lhuyd in 1707 to group various old regional languages into a grouped system, the term was largely romanticised during the course of the 19th century to a level of fantastical notions, before 1707, the term was unheard of.
There is a Cape Fare (Fear) version of this "Elizabethan hoi toid" my grandfather spoke,it's own twang dating back to the blockade runners of the Civil War and the first settlers in that area,ours Welsh/Cornish/Scot.It's a dying accent,I'm proud to have grown up hearing it (and Piedmont) and hope those who stayed keep it alive
Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots). It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic
In later periods it was not always called "clogging", being known variously as flatfooting, foot-stomping, buck dancing, clog dancing, jigging, or other local terms. What all these had in common was emphasizing the downbeat of the music by enthusiastic footwork.
The hoy toyder accent is or was (I don't know now,i worked there back in 1979.) in Salter Path NC also and these accents also have a bit of whats sounds like a pirate dialect as well. I loved it!
Its cool I hear a little normal Carolina accent in with some British and Irish and even some Scottish on the "o" sounds in the words. Hell yea be proud of it!!!! Makes people ask questions lol I say stuff to people in the local cities that they dont understand because I come from the rural areas of Appalachia
It'll probably fade in a couple generations. You can already here the younger ones (30's) sound way more southern than "brogue". Really heard it in the old timers though, very cool. A little time traveling.
This dialect has a distinctly "West Country English" sound to it, I think - particularly in how they produce the /r/ sound. I've never heard East Anglia's Suffolk dialect before, but I shall have to give that a listen to see how it compares :) To me, though, this sounds rather similar to the dialects found in Hampshire, Devon and particularly Bristol. Does anyone else think so?
Yeah, I'm getting the accent of a someone that grew up in the West Country until they were 14-15 and then moved to America for 30 years. The core is West Country but has grown more American.
This barrier island chain has been largely isolated from the rest of the country for most of its existence as a populated area. It's no wonder the accent didn't get diluted.
Both in the USA and in England clog dancing was also known as "buck and wing" dancing. The "wing" referred to is the step where a foot is kicked out to one side, striking the ground as it goes.
There are two types of southern accents, the white and black southern accents. I'm from the south and white southern accents are different from black southern accents. Don't get me wrong, they are both 'southern' but they sound completely different even people from the same state.
There are multiple Southern accents. You have some that lean towards English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish origins. But you also have French-derived Cajun accents in Louisiana and even German-influenced accents in Texas.
Spot on Peter. It's like a Cornish or south western English mixed with Australian or trying to impersonate an Australian. Absolutely, not remotely Irish sounding at all
John Harwood I'm surprised by your comment; you assume too much. I definitely do not make a conscious effort to bastardize my accent in order to fit in, but neither do I make any effort to retain it in order to stand out...I've been fully integrated for the last 12 years with minimal exposure to other Brits...Also...fuck you.
We get people from all over who come down here and cannot understand one bit of what some people say. It's quite funny and I can understand it perfectly fine so I have to be the translator for my friends visiting my family
I'm from NC and the woman sounded more Piedmont to me, anyone else? Except the way she pronounced "like" and a few other words I think she didn't sound too unusual, some of the old guys were interesting though!
The border origin of the Scotch-Irish is supported by study of the traditional music and folklore of the Appalachian Mountains, settled primarily by the Scotch-Irish in the 18th century. Musicologist Cecil Sharp collected hundreds of folk songs in the region, and observed that the musical tradition of the people "seems to point to the North of England, or to the Lowlands, rather than the Highlands, of Scotland,
Does sound a bit English, doesn't it? I am unfamiliar with the Suffolk accent though. All Americans knows when it comes to England (sadly) is rp English.
I can definitely hear a bit of Suffolk in there when they say words like 'side' and 'same'. Evidently, Australian accents were also heavily influenced by the East Anglian dialects.
Okay, I'm a little turned on roight nah! My Daddy was from Little Washington and his family was from Hoide (Hyde) County. Love this accent! Reaminds me of my Grandma, Malsie Greene.
The first woman does sound a bit Aussie, but most of the men sound like Dorset/West Country or East Anglian, definitely a rural burr. Very strange to British ears but absolutely fascinating. I hope they talk like this forever.
I had a math teacher in Chapel hill high school that was from the outer banks and he spoke like this. Now i get it. I don't remember his name but i remember him being the soccer coach and i think he was a green beret.
My ancestors where Scottish mostly on my dads side (Thompson) they come from southern VA Appalachia area and my moms side is undetermined most likely english/irish but a odd chance of some jewish . I can definitely see the similarities to scottish accents etc..
I love my area and the crowd here. Being part of the commercial fishing community around here is something I wouldn't trade fer nothin. We're a dying breed for sure bud
The earliest Irish mention of the bagpipe is in 1206, approximately thirty years after the Anglo-Norman invasion. Obviously the instrument began to catch on in Ireland but as to whether it was the English or French variant, is anyone's guess. It certainly was not the Scottish Great Highland pipe, the Piob Mor, because that instrument had yet to work it's way up from England.
In southern Utah, around Panguitch area of Utah, people have a more subtle accent that sounds similar to this, mixed in with the "yah" you hear in Minnesota and the Dakotas. They're mostly English and Scandinavian descendants.
This has always fascinated me - there are elements of regional English all the time: East Anglia & the South West. The first man sounds Suffolk/Essex (original Essex, not modern 'Estuary'). The first English settlers in the US probably sounded similar to this. It's also where the modern Australian/New Zealand accents possibly evolved from: British settlers' descendents over generations.
prove it ..... Settlers of English descent also came into the Piedmont. Two groups concentrated in the northern part. By 1754 English Quakers had organized the New Garden Monthly Meeting. This congregation attracted settlers from several counties in the Piedmont. The other English group included settlers from central Virginia, mostly Baptist, who arrived during and after the French and Indian War (1754-1763).
A lady I knew was from that area and this was how she talked. The thing I noticed was how she pronounce house. It sounded like hose, with an emphasis on the “o”.
Man! The easten U.S. is so diverse in dialects! I feel like there's all this regional history over there, kind of like in the U.K., whereas the Western U.S. is much more homogeneous.
Definitely descended from broad Norfolk dialect from where I’m from in England. These folks just sound like people from here who have lived in the states for 30 years haha (especially the first lad and the lad with the crab pots sounded right Norfolk)
The name 'Scot' is believed to an ancient word derived from the term 'Scythia', 'Scot' and 'Scyt' being synonymous terms, both collectively known as 'Scutten' in old German. Recommended reading, 'History of the Scottish Nation' - Vol.1 chapter 21 in particular, by Dr.James Wylie.
John Taylor: "I've just look it up and it says the scotch irish/ulster scots english and germans settled there .. nothing about welsh/cornish/scottish" This is also the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Many of the locals' ancestors are not just settlers, but survivors of many shipwrecks. This place was also home port to pirates way back as well. I'm sure a few of them hailed from elsewhere and settled here.
Very different to any American accent. It sounds like a mix of the accents of Norfolk and Suffolk and the West Country (Devon and Cornwall) here in the UK. Some of the younger ones have a slight hint of southern drawl.
Bernicia (Old English: Bernice, Beornice; Latin: Bernicia) was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by Anglian settlers of the 6th century in what is now southeastern Scotland and North East England.
Hi John,you might be misunderstanding me,my mothers side is from the Piedmont,their accent is very different from my father's coastal side who came from Wales in 1784
In the 16th century, the language of the Scottish Lowlands, including the towns and royal court, was Scots; it was closely related to contemporary English. Since Scottish Lowlanders spoke a very similar language to the English and historically had had similar cultural influences, as well as varying degrees of contact with England, 16th century Scottish Lowland names were very similar in general to 16th century English names
this is not an average Carolinian dialect its from the outerbanks which is isolated from the mainland... it funky tho... I dnt speak english I speak Appalachian ever seen popcorn? guy that makes moonshine? like that lol
We think we're Virginia? You've got your wires crossed. The Outer Banks and eastern Virginia are the same cultural vein. Notice the accent in Tangier is the same. Massachusetts is completely different since their accent is non-rhotic (meaning more modern.)
@@thenextshenanigantownandth4393 Where's the Brummie you're hearing? Sounds way closer to West Country than anything else to me, just with an American twang in a few places. Which is consistent with the history of the region too
"See heres an old pot aint been fished in a couple days. See this pot here belongs to my friend Vincent. Mine aint like that. Mines away, I done crabbed mine today they wont be much in them."
The great 'vowel-shift' in British speech began shortly around the time Shakespeare died in 1616, and took a good century before it reached the outer regions of England. European settlement of Ocrakoke began in 1585, when Sir Walter Raleigh's ship hit a sandbar there and a handful of families stayed behind to fish and farm. It wasn't until 1750 when England attempted another permanent colony there. So, from 1585-1750 Ocracoke Island was completely removed from outsiders and never took on the vowel-shift that British English took on. Now, whether or not Ocracoke Brogue has changed since then is open to debate. There have been two great influxes of dingbatters (outsiders); the colonists that came in 1750 and the fisheries that sprang up during the late 1960s. We see that the language is changing now just from the outsiders moving into the region for the last fifty years, so it's reasonable to think that the 1750 settlement could have colored the accent as well. But IF the language didn't change after 1750, then yes, the Hoi Toide dialect is probably the closest living relative to the language that Shakespeare and the King James translators would have spoken in their day. Even my Grandfather still used archaic English like "thee and thine" and "tooketh" at times. Somebody stole my Grandpa's clothes off the line one morning, and I remember him saying something about the next door neighbor being a "kinchener whut tooketh m'boiler knickies off'n the loine." Translation: (Thief that stole my fishing pants off the clothesline).
Problem is, nobody really knows what Elizabethan English sounded like, and obviously there were many accents and dialects back then. Shakespeare was from the Midlands, too, and these guys accents have a West country or Suffolk 'burr' to them. Ozzy Osbourne is from Birmingham, which is closer to Shakespeare country. Maybe Shakespeare sounded like Ozzy??!!
I am from western North Carolina, and can remember when I was in 5th grade in school, getting a new student in the classroom, who ended up being my best friend that year. She never said a word her first week. Then when I finally heard talk I couldn't get over her British accent. I told her I just love her cool British accent. She nicely informed me she wasn't British, she was born and raised down at the obx, to be precise Nags Head. I was like that's cool.
I'm British and the way they say their vowels sounds like west country English.
What does
"I was like that's cool" mean? It sounds soooo..... disjointed(?).
Thank y'all so much for putting this on youtube. My family is from Nag's Head and I've been living in Asia the last 8 years.
Drinking whisky, thinking about my dead grandparents and crying tonight. Just hearing people talking like real folks is so good to my soul.
Yes, it is. God bless you, my friend, and sometimes it's actually a blessing in disguise to have a really good cry.
I'm from Raleigh. I love hearing coastal folks. I like the variation in our state.
It's funny how different someone in the mountains sounds from someone in the piedmont, and from the tidewater to the OBX. When someone says "southern accent" I'm like "which state, and which region in that state?"
When it comes to regional accents, North Carolina has more than any other state, and is even comparable to the UK, which is well known for having a rich diversity of regional accents all across the country.
@@Regularbeerreviews you ain't lying. Y'all's Appalachian English is different than ours over here. I cross the state line into Murphy and the dialect changes.
Unfortunately these people are dying off. So the accent is leaving NC.
I am from here and I don't think that the brogue will ever end. I am 29 and I have it !!! Everyone has there own way of speaking that is what makes us unique!!!!! Don't talk trash unless you know what you are talking about!!!..
Me too and dont none of us care what nobody thinks...its ok honey letem talk.. we got our own language
This is how the first North Carolinian's probably sounded. Nice to hold on to a little bit of history.
Probably sounded even less American back then.
Wer a dyin breed
This is too kool, I'm waiting to see me on there
A considerable amount of the people who moved to OBX from Jameston VA were criminals who wanted to distance themselves from the law. Appalachian accents are of course quite different, but Europeans migrated there about the same time. Don't forget Europeans aren't the first people in the land now known as NC. Cherokee, Catawba, Lumbee, and other Indian tribes have their own accents. And then there's Gullah & Geechee
@@travisweldmaster7815 that's what they said about Cajuns and Kouri Vini, but hey where ya at?? Still chillin and speakin that old dialect I bet. Everytime they say we're dead we seem to pop up again ✌️
I hope the folks out on the barrier islands keep on talking like they've proudly done for eons. I think the coastal brogue accent is awesome, just one more thing that makes North Carolina unique. A bunch of people I've met in other states that have travelled our coast don't make fun of brogue speaking people. If anything, they're fascinated that English influence has lasted all these years. But again, the Carolina coast was one of the very first areas colonized by England, so there's good reason for the accent.
to me it is lovely, my ear hears every sentence switch between a regular South East American sound to a middle English accent (ie the old accent spoken between Norfolk and Cornwall)
that old guy playing the guitar's name is mr Roy Parsons. i spent a large chunk of my childhood on ocracoke island. Mr Roy taught me so much about life when i was little. unfortunately mr roy passed away but his memory lives on
Simply because of the isolation. That first guy is from harker's island (about 10 mins from me) People there don't really leave, and new people don't really go in. So, the language is fairly preserved, and is actually one of the closest to The King's English. (as studied by UNC)
I think he is from ocracoke
Love that accent, and that beautiful country. All that open sky and sea, and kids who can play without fear. That's a good life they lead.
Grandma talked a little bit like this. A Beaufort native, and family was there many generations. Theses days its a bit of a tourist trap, but still my favorite part of the country.
Ditto. My mother also. We lived all over with the military. It was so unique friends asked me what country she was from.
The bloke at 4:01talking about the crabs could almost be from Suffolk. The rhythm of his speech, the elongated vowels sound.
Holy shit you're right. It's very possible that his ancestors came from there; many early British settlers came from East Anglia.
@@MattMangels In the book America, by Tindall and Shi, they attest that the American accent was heavily influenced by East Anglian people, often Puritan farming people, going to America right at the start of the colonial period.
I as a child spent a lot of time, every summer with my daddy who was from Sea Level which is right next-door to Atlantic. when i hear this beautiful dialect spoken it is music to my ears. I love it down east, i love it with all my heart.. there is no other dialect of English that is more music then this... I love these people. I can trace my ancestry on my father side since before the Revolutionary war.. I pray and home that this dialect never dies out..
+Sew Sallysew I was born at Sea Level when it was a hospital. It's now a nursing home. I grew up in Gloucester which is about 45 min away. It's a small unincorporated community. My family on my mother's side is from there Chadwicks and Davis. They are descendants of some of the first settlers there, mostly fishermen and farmers. It's an island area, with you having to cross the North River bridge. Before then things were brought from Beaufort on skows, flat bottom boats. My grandfather had the first truck over there, also brought over on a skow. When the bridge was built he delivered ice, coal in the winter and had a vegetable field that he sold things from. To really hear true down east broge you should go to Harkers Island, another island across the sound from Beaufort and about 5 miles from Gloucester. We call ourselves hightiders too. We say it like hoityders. I loved growing up down there. I live in Morehead City now 40 min away. No one except the before mentioned folks at Salter Path talk like that now but for a few older folks. Look up the history of Diamond City on the outer banks near Morehead City and the "Promised Land" they were offered for moving off the outer banks.
The late Roy Parsons singing and playing guitar.We miss him.
Brit here. The first chap sounds more english than american. the others less so. the guy from 4 mins though almost could've grown up in suffolk! I hope it survives.
great stuff
wiseacre sound 100% American to me
@@nothingnothing5776 There are multiple accents after all. Sounds very Old Country to me, and I was raised in Maryland and Virginia.
I didnt know people were so fascinated in how we talk, this has got me tickeled, I can't get "oer it" lol who knows where "yonder" is or "narry" Haha I'm family with several this crowd, this has absolutely tickeld me to death
@@travisweldmaster7815 Because your accents are literally time capsules. I'm from England and these accents are nearly all west country to me (western England). I can hear a tiny American right at the end of their sentences.
Hoy toyd on the soun soyd
Be proud of how you talk and your heritage....there are very few good people left these days and you folks are the salt of the earth. I am from the south, the piedmont region of NC but my southern dialect is a southern drawl that outsiders think me to be slow slow in wit but I manage pretty doggone quick to show them I can outwit them. My wife is a Syracuse NY yankee and I am a southern rebel boy and people are amazed at us. I tell them we are an interracial couple ha ha. We manage.......she has not tried to change who I am and I know better than to try to change her. We are going to the banks in a month or so and I can't wait to see you folks. Stay forever who you are. God bless you.
An estimated 90% of Appalachia's earliest European settlers originated from the Anglo-Scottish border country- namely the English counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, Northumberland, Durham, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, and the Lowland Scottish counties of Ayrshire, Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire, Berwickshire, and Wigtownshire. Most of these were from families who had been resettled in the Ulster Plantation in northern Ireland in the 17th century
Today, Scotch-Irish is an Americanism almost unknown in England, Ireland or Scotland. The term is somewhat unclear because some of the Scotch-Irish have little or no Scottish ancestry at all, as a large number of dissenter families had also been transplanted to Ulster from northern England. Smaller numbers of migrants also came from the southeast of England,
A few years ago, there was a documentary on the language of the Outer Banks. It claimed that the original language came from Devon, England. Having been brought up there and a stones throw from Sir Walter Raleigh was born, I agree with the show.
My granddaughters now live in the area, an I understand the locals.
yeah, it sounds just like the English West Country accent
Cool! So great to be able to record diverse accents, since accents and dialects are always changing and shifting. I've never heard this one before, and it's a delight to listen to.
My moms from down east, outside of beaufort. Always loved hearing the old people talk down there.
Love this...I'm from East End if Long Island and we sound a lot like you..We are Lester( posey) ...my half brother married a wimen Belva Rose ..I forget the name of man that lived on Harkers Island that made model boat .. I'm thinking of moving to NC ...
the difference is that Long Islanders don't front their long O vowels because there is not as much West Country English influence there.
the West Country English sound starts to get strong in central Jersey and continues all the way down to Orlando
God be with these ppl through florence and give em the strength for a fast recovery
The dance has origins in England. In the fifteenth century the all-wooden clog was replaced by a leather-topped shoe with a one-piece wooden bottom. By the 16th century a more conventional leather shoe with separate wooden pieces on the heel and toe called "flats" became popular, from where the terms "heel and toe" and "flatfooting" derive.
I had a massive crush on a boy from Nag's Head in middle school... I loved the way he talked but I had never been able to figure out if it was an accent or just a him thing... never knew it was a whole dialect, although I have family members from the outer banks area so I've already been familiar with it without knowing even though I live in the city... just listening to them definitely makes me think of some people in my family who talk in a very similar way... nc is so much cooler than anyone gives it credit for
A lot of my friends from the OBX talk like this. It's sad that it won't be around much longer.
The mention of Australian accent makes me hear it. There is some pronunciations, especially vowels, that jump out at me and sound like what I'm used to (yes, I'm Aussie).
It's quite fascinating to listen to. For me it's always highly educational. :)
That’s what I heard. “Hoi toid”(high tide) sounds super Aussie to me.
Did you come here to die? No I came here Yesterdie
@@GroundandPound9 likely pre-vowel shift, that happened in the 1700's, but after most of the convicts had already wound up in Australia. Hence, Australians retained the vowels that were common before the shift. "Chine" instead of "chain" for instance.
Sounds like an English Norfolk accent which is similar to Aussie
Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) Americans are the descendants of Presbyterian and other Protestant dissenters from the Irish province of Ulster who migrated to North America during the 18th and 19th centuries. Most of the Scotch-Irish were descended from Scottish and English families who colonized Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th century
The term 'Celtic' is an 18th century term first invented by Edward Lhuyd in 1707 to group various old regional languages into a grouped system, the term was largely romanticised during the course of the 19th century to a level of fantastical notions, before 1707, the term was unheard of.
I can see the Cornish, Devon, Dorset and Somerset influences in this accent. Definitely.
1:16 Dude was like, I didn't understand a word you said, but I'm gonna drop this crab pot and pray.
There's no state like my state, NORTH CAROLINA!
No matter where I am I immediately know when I've met a fellow eastern North Carolinian because of that accent.
Edward McCabe those fishermen at 3:04 - pure awesomeness.
There is a Cape Fare (Fear) version of this "Elizabethan hoi toid" my grandfather spoke,it's own twang dating back to the blockade runners of the Civil War and the first settlers in that area,ours Welsh/Cornish/Scot.It's a dying accent,I'm proud to have grown up hearing it (and Piedmont) and hope those who stayed keep it alive
Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots). It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic
It's so pretty there. I love the Outer Banks!
In later periods it was not always called "clogging", being known variously as flatfooting, foot-stomping, buck dancing, clog dancing, jigging, or other local terms. What all these had in common was emphasizing the downbeat of the music by enthusiastic footwork.
The hoy toyder accent is or was (I don't know now,i worked there back in 1979.) in Salter Path NC also and these accents also have a bit of whats sounds like a pirate dialect as well. I loved it!
Down the beach yonder thata way been took oer by dingbatters to hear "us" u got to go down east, from north river bridge in east
Its cool I hear a little normal Carolina accent in with some British and Irish and even some Scottish on the "o" sounds in the words. Hell yea be proud of it!!!! Makes people ask questions lol I say stuff to people in the local cities that they dont understand because I come from the rural areas of Appalachia
It'll probably fade in a couple generations. You can already here the younger ones (30's) sound way more southern than "brogue". Really heard it in the old timers though, very cool. A little time traveling.
This dialect has a distinctly "West Country English" sound to it, I think - particularly in how they produce the /r/ sound. I've never heard East Anglia's Suffolk dialect before, but I shall have to give that a listen to see how it compares :)
To me, though, this sounds rather similar to the dialects found in Hampshire, Devon and particularly Bristol.
Does anyone else think so?
Partially yes
I was thinking north norfolk cromer?? Very similar
west country + east Anglia + Dublin perhaps but I think it is more West and East English
Yeah, I'm getting the accent of a someone that grew up in the West Country until they were 14-15 and then moved to America for 30 years. The core is West Country but has grown more American.
The way they say vowels sounds like west country English.
I'm from England, and I can say that the guy from 4:00 onwards has a west country accent. So bizarre
This barrier island chain has been largely isolated from the rest of the country for most of its existence as a populated area. It's no wonder the accent didn't get diluted.
Love hearing the coastal West Country English (e.g., Cornwall, Dorset and Devon) intonations spoken in southern US.
Both in the USA and in England clog dancing was also known as "buck and wing" dancing. The "wing" referred to is the step where a foot is kicked out to one side, striking the ground as it goes.
Theres a lot of English fisherman/Cornish here to. Very interesting!
the lady at 1:42 has a higher pitch version of the way my deceased aunt talked.
There are two types of southern accents, the white and black southern accents. I'm from the south and white southern accents are different from black southern accents. Don't get me wrong, they are both 'southern' but they sound completely different even people from the same state.
POPJack1717 there are a bunch of different south accents
Well I'm black and have a "white southern accent" hahaha
There are multiple Southern accents. You have some that lean towards English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish origins. But you also have French-derived Cajun accents in Louisiana and even German-influenced accents in Texas.
From Ireland and don't hear the Irish at all. Sounds like a southern English guy doing an impression of an Australian
@Yosi Osiris Doesn't sound anything like welsh or Scottish, It sounds like a Birmingham accent and a Irish Dublin accent.
Spot on Peter. It's like a Cornish or south western English mixed with Australian or trying to impersonate an Australian. Absolutely, not remotely Irish sounding at all
Unmistakably Suffolk (East Anglian). ua-cam.com/video/4GqDSJKLfFM/v-deo.html
Sounds like the local dialect in the South West of England, where I grew up
OMG that must be one of the oldest accents in North America!! They actually sound like they are from Norfolk, England!
I am proud to be from down east. I would not have it any other way
Amen bucky
U got it big town uh stacy wouldn't change narry thing
@@travisweldmaster7815 I wouldn't change nery dam thing I liker just like she is
I'm from England, but I've lived in Raleigh NC for the past 12 years...this is what I sound like 😭
Why? People with a sense of identity KEEP their accent unless they're desparate to "fit in"!
John Harwood
I'm surprised by your comment; you assume too much. I definitely do not make a conscious effort to bastardize my accent in order to fit in, but neither do I make any effort to retain it in order to stand out...I've been fully integrated for the last 12 years with minimal exposure to other Brits...Also...fuck you.
@@johnharwood194 you moron, maybe Joe came from Exeter and so the accent easily jumped into her larynx
I occasionally hear some inflections of Mainer. Love this series. Fascinating stuff.
We get people from all over who come down here and cannot understand one bit of what some people say. It's quite funny and I can understand it perfectly fine so I have to be the translator for my friends visiting my family
I'm from NC and the woman sounded more Piedmont to me, anyone else? Except the way she pronounced "like" and a few other words I think she didn't sound too unusual, some of the old guys were interesting though!
Yeah the women sounded more "American" to me, but some of the guys really sound like they could've come from Cornwall, Devon or the likes.
Yeah in the womens' accents are different than males
I didn't even know this existed until today. This is really cool
The border origin of the Scotch-Irish is supported by study of the traditional music and folklore of the Appalachian Mountains, settled primarily by the Scotch-Irish in the 18th century. Musicologist Cecil Sharp collected hundreds of folk songs in the region, and observed that the musical tradition of the people "seems to point to the North of England, or to the Lowlands, rather than the Highlands, of Scotland,
This is absolutely fascinating. Shame that this sort of dialect will likely only be preserved via these kinds of documentaries.
sounds like Suffolk in East Anglia
+Edouard Garça There is a woman on YT somewhere who shows the variation in England. When I heard E. Anglia it reminded me of NC.
Does sound a bit English, doesn't it? I am unfamiliar with the Suffolk accent though. All Americans knows when it comes to England (sadly) is rp English.
+Adam Hovey what is actually not East Anglian is the way they front their O's. In that way they sound West Country, RP, or Dublin. it seems a mix
I can definitely hear a bit of Suffolk in there when they say words like 'side' and 'same'. Evidently, Australian accents were also heavily influenced by the East Anglian dialects.
Actually the more research I do it seems that "hoi toid " accents have a lot of Midlands influence like Brummie and Black Country
Okay, I'm a little turned on roight nah! My Daddy was from Little Washington and his family was from Hoide (Hyde) County. Love this accent! Reaminds me of my Grandma, Malsie Greene.
The woman in the white sweatshirt doesn't have the same accent as the men, much easier to understand.
The first woman does sound a bit Aussie, but most of the men sound like Dorset/West Country or East Anglian, definitely a rural burr. Very strange to British ears but absolutely fascinating. I hope they talk like this forever.
I had a math teacher in Chapel hill high school that was from the outer banks and he spoke like this. Now i get it. I don't remember his name but i remember him being the soccer coach and i think he was a green beret.
Dang I didnt know we were so...studied, I know all this crowd, son..I'm tickeled
Sounds very much like any number of regional dialects from southern England.
Im going to visit this area next week and even though im from nc. Ive never met anyone from this area.
This is the way we talk it old English
My ancestors where Scottish mostly on my dads side (Thompson) they come from southern VA Appalachia area and my moms side is undetermined most likely english/irish but a odd chance of some jewish . I can definitely see the similarities to scottish accents etc..
Sounds similar to the Tangier island accent in Virginia.
Turn on captions for the best video ever.
it actually does sound a bit like an old westcountry (Devon/Cornwall) accent -where im from... but still sounds American to us!
I love my area and the crowd here. Being part of the commercial fishing community around here is something I wouldn't trade fer nothin. We're a dying breed for sure bud
The earliest Irish mention of the bagpipe is in 1206, approximately thirty years after the Anglo-Norman invasion. Obviously the instrument began to catch on in Ireland but as to whether it was the English or French variant, is anyone's guess. It certainly was not the Scottish Great Highland pipe, the Piob Mor, because that instrument had yet to work it's way up from England.
Great Heritage = Stay proud of it ...
Proud of what. Attempted genocide and replacement of the indigenous peoples?
PROUD BABY ! down east born n raised
In southern Utah, around Panguitch area of Utah, people have a more subtle accent that sounds similar to this, mixed in with the "yah" you hear in Minnesota and the Dakotas. They're mostly English and Scandinavian descendants.
Sounds like a mix of a English Accent and a American Southern accent.
having never been to the outer banks, i get a strange sense of pride of being an american as i watch this video.
This has always fascinated me - there are elements of regional English all the time: East Anglia & the South West. The first man sounds Suffolk/Essex (original Essex, not modern 'Estuary').
The first English settlers in the US probably sounded similar to this. It's also where the modern Australian/New Zealand accents possibly evolved from: British settlers' descendents over generations.
Some folks (The ones who titled this, for instance) don't know where the Outer Banks are! A lot of this is from Atlantic and Harker's Island.
The Outer Banks and Down East accent (from the Core Banks) are very much the same.
Y yeah, they're sitting to the harbor to the per, bet nobody knows where the per is hahaha
prove it ..... Settlers of English descent also came into the Piedmont. Two groups concentrated in the northern part. By 1754 English Quakers had organized the New Garden Monthly Meeting. This congregation attracted settlers from several counties in the Piedmont. The other English group included settlers from central Virginia, mostly Baptist, who arrived during and after the French and Indian War (1754-1763).
A lady I knew was from that area and this was how she talked. The thing I noticed was how she pronounce house. It sounded like hose, with an emphasis on the “o”.
Man! The easten U.S. is so diverse in dialects! I feel like there's all this regional history over there, kind of like in the U.K., whereas the Western U.S. is much more homogeneous.
Definitely descended from broad Norfolk dialect from where I’m from in England. These folks just sound like people from here who have lived in the states for 30 years haha (especially the first lad and the lad with the crab pots sounded right Norfolk)
The name 'Scot' is believed to an ancient word derived from the term 'Scythia', 'Scot' and 'Scyt' being synonymous terms, both collectively known as 'Scutten' in old German.
Recommended reading, 'History of the Scottish Nation' - Vol.1 chapter 21 in particular, by Dr.James Wylie.
John Taylor:
"I've just look it up and it says the scotch irish/ulster scots english and germans settled there .. nothing about welsh/cornish/scottish"
This is also the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Many of the locals' ancestors are not just settlers, but survivors of many shipwrecks. This place was also home port to pirates way back as well. I'm sure a few of them hailed from elsewhere and settled here.
Scots Irish are a 19th century myth.
I'm from NC and I know exactly what they are saying
.....omg do I sound like that!?
Your not special, every body can understand them
Very different to any American accent. It sounds like a mix of the accents of Norfolk and Suffolk and the West Country (Devon and Cornwall) here in the UK. Some of the younger ones have a slight hint of southern drawl.
They sound like a cross between a British and Southern accent. Very interesting.
Bernicia (Old English: Bernice, Beornice; Latin: Bernicia) was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by Anglian settlers of the 6th century in what is now southeastern Scotland and North East England.
Hi John,you might be misunderstanding me,my mothers side is from the Piedmont,their accent is very different from my father's coastal side who came from Wales in 1784
In the 16th century, the language of the Scottish Lowlands, including the towns and royal court, was Scots; it was closely related to contemporary English. Since Scottish Lowlanders spoke a very similar language to the English and historically had had similar cultural influences, as well as varying degrees of contact with England, 16th century Scottish Lowland names were very similar in general to 16th century English names
this is not an average Carolinian dialect its from the outerbanks which is isolated from the mainland... it funky tho... I dnt speak english I speak Appalachian ever seen popcorn? guy that makes moonshine? like that lol
We think we're Virginia? You've got your wires crossed. The Outer Banks and eastern Virginia are the same cultural vein. Notice the accent in Tangier is the same. Massachusetts is completely different since their accent is non-rhotic (meaning more modern.)
3:09 If they didn't like ya they wouldn't talk to ya.
Words ta live by.
As a Southerner, funny to listen to them talk because some of them have a Southern drawl along with the brogue and others of them don't.
Where's thee too? Sounds like a Brisl (Bristol England) accent to me
Not really, sounds like a Birmingham accent and a Dublin accent.
@@thenextshenanigantownandth4393 Where's the Brummie you're hearing? Sounds way closer to West Country than anything else to me, just with an American twang in a few places. Which is consistent with the history of the region too
This is for real!
Sounds like a cross between Australian, Southern American and Cornish. Pretty cool accent.
"See heres an old pot aint been fished in a couple days. See this pot here belongs to my friend Vincent. Mine aint like that. Mines away, I done crabbed mine today they wont be much in them."
Some people have stated that this sounds like Elizabethian English accent aka Shakespeare Original pronunciation, thoughts?
Well, didn't they say they were kind of isolated there since 16-something? And Shakespeare did in 1616, so... I could believe it.
The great 'vowel-shift' in British speech began shortly around the time Shakespeare died in 1616, and took a good century before it reached the outer regions of England. European settlement of Ocrakoke began in 1585, when Sir Walter Raleigh's ship hit a sandbar there and a handful of families stayed behind to fish and farm. It wasn't until 1750 when England attempted another permanent colony there. So, from 1585-1750 Ocracoke Island was completely removed from outsiders and never took on the vowel-shift that British English took on.
Now, whether or not Ocracoke Brogue has changed since then is open to debate. There have been two great influxes of dingbatters (outsiders); the colonists that came in 1750 and the fisheries that sprang up during the late 1960s. We see that the language is changing now just from the outsiders moving into the region for the last fifty years, so it's reasonable to think that the 1750 settlement could have colored the accent as well.
But IF the language didn't change after 1750, then yes, the Hoi Toide dialect is probably the closest living relative to the language that Shakespeare and the King James translators would have spoken in their day. Even my Grandfather still used archaic English like "thee and thine" and "tooketh" at times. Somebody stole my Grandpa's clothes off the line one morning, and I remember him saying something about the next door neighbor being a "kinchener whut tooketh m'boiler knickies off'n the loine." Translation: (Thief that stole my fishing pants off the clothesline).
Problem is, nobody really knows what Elizabethan English sounded like, and obviously there were many accents and dialects back then. Shakespeare was from the Midlands, too, and these guys accents have a West country or Suffolk 'burr' to them. Ozzy Osbourne is from Birmingham, which is closer to Shakespeare country. Maybe Shakespeare sounded like Ozzy??!!
So amazing!! Love the accent!