Outer Banks English
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- The dialect or "brogue" of the North Carolina Outer Banks
Excerpt from from the documentary "Voices of North Carolina"
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The Old North State is home to diverse language traditions from the Outer Banks to the Southern Highlands. Cherokee and Lumbee Indians, African Americans, and first language Spanish-speakers all have a home in this linguistically rich state. “Voices of NC” features series of short educational vignettes, each focusing on a different language community in North Carolina. Southerners from all walks of life lend their voices to a universal portrait of language and identity.
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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.
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 ✌️
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
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)
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
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.
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.
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.
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
The late Roy Parsons singing and playing guitar.We miss him.
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 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.
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.
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
I can see the Cornish, Devon, Dorset and Somerset influences in this accent. Definitely.
God be with these ppl through florence and give em the strength for a fast recovery
Great Heritage = Stay proud of it ...
Proud of what. Attempted genocide and replacement of the indigenous peoples?
PROUD BABY ! down east born n raised
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
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
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
1:16 Dude was like, I didn't understand a word you said, but I'm gonna drop this crab pot and pray.
It's so pretty there. I love the Outer Banks!
No matter where I am I immediately know when I've met a fellow eastern North Carolinian because of that accent.
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,
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
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
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.
A lot of my friends from the OBX talk like this. It's sad that it won't be around much longer.
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
Edward McCabe those fishermen at 3:04 - pure awesomeness.
My moms from down east, outside of beaufort. Always loved hearing the old people talk down there.
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 occasionally hear some inflections of Mainer. Love this series. Fascinating stuff.
It's like listening to history.
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
I didn't even know this existed until today. This is really cool
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
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
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
Theres a lot of English fisherman/Cornish here to. Very interesting!
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Im going to visit this area next week and even though im from nc. Ive never met anyone from this area.
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.
OMG that must be one of the oldest accents in North America!! They actually sound like they are from Norfolk, England!
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.
This is absolutely fascinating. Shame that this sort of dialect will likely only be preserved via these kinds of documentaries.
This is for real!
beautiful
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
having never been to the outer banks, i get a strange sense of pride of being an american as i watch this video.
Turn on captions for the best video ever.
Love hearing the coastal West Country English (e.g., Cornwall, Dorset and Devon) intonations spoken in southern US.
This is hilarious with Captions on.
Agreed. Awsome
Sounds similar to the Tangier island accent in Virginia.
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.
Sounds like the local dialect in the South West of England, where I grew up
the lady at 1:42 has a higher pitch version of the way my deceased aunt talked.
Sounds very much like any number of regional dialects from southern England.
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
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..
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,
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
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.
further north u go the less the accent on the outer banks. i liv in manteo. still got it, just not as much. great video. love to watch vids of my heritage and my dialect.
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.
that is what I was screaming
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.
So amazing!! Love the accent!
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.
Dang I didnt know we were so...studied, I know all this crowd, son..I'm tickeled
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
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.
They sound like a cross between a British and Southern accent. Very interesting.
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.
Delightful!
This is the way we talk it old English
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).
it actually does sound a bit like an old westcountry (Devon/Cornwall) accent -where im from... but still sounds American to us!
Sounds like West Country British
I’m from Indiana and I love Downeast
This is amazing
I'm here because of WIRED... obviously they watched this video too because it's directly quoted in it.
Blimey!
I'd be proud of it. Unfortunately i have a Baltimore accent.
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
West Country all the way
lancashire became part of bernicia as well
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.