The Disappearing American Dialect of North Carolina
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- "Hoi Toider," aka Ocracoke Brogue, is a dialect of American English spoken only on remote islands in North Carolina's Outer Banks. The unique accent and vocabulary developed over hundreds of years as a result of the area's isolation. Visitors often mistake the accent as foreign, but with origins dating back to the 1600s, Ocracoke Brogue is about American as it gets.
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When he said "Oi tor dirx sahz hoi dar warter fall en digh moonshine nofeesh" *I felt that*
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lmfao dude
@jay - High tide on the south side, low tide water on the far right of the "Moonshine" (boat name or dock?). No fish.
Ascending!! 😂⚰️☠️
😂😂😂
When the cameras man goes away
“Hey guys we can talk normal now”
lol I grew up hearing people talk like this because my dad was from a little NC island (not one mentioned in the video). His brother-in-law is from Canada, and when my dad and his friends started talking to each other, they might as well have been speaking another language because his brother-in-law couldn't understand anything they were saying.
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Oh crap I didn’t even realize it got this many likes
Lmao
Nah I’m from eastern NC and can confirm that the accent is legit
I've lived in NC my whole life, people got different ways of talking. One place has country accents then 30 minutes up the road they got a preppy accent, its weird.
NC got everything. Accents and we can get every season in one week. Monday it rains then Tuesday it snows Wednesday it melts it with 70 degree weather then Thursday it can get nippy outside.
Enjoi Joshua I love our state
@@zionisgone Yea but screw our humidity, i live in grays Creek outside of Fayetteville
@@justinteal495 I live just south of Raleigh, it is no better here. It's so much better indoors. Also, it seems like every summer you can find several new species of bugs.
williejames huff it has more northern pronunciation to it.
It makes me wonder how many regional accents in the USA were lost when radio and television began to take over between the 1920s and 50s.
or before
How does radio and television loose accents?
Heaps. My grandma was a lecturer on this very topic at University of New Haven.
@@draco_1876 as everyone begins to connect more and more, accents merge
@@hayleymarse2853 ohhhh. Thanks that’s pretty crazy tbh.
"Ocracoke is an island that has always lived around the water"
Yes, the floor is made out of floor
😂😂😂
I always thought water lived around an island, not vice versa. Who knew?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You ding bat. You don't get what he was saying. When he says "lived around the water" he means survived off of the water. The ocean gives us life out there. You people are so rude and dumb.
@@caseykerr9693 You should try decaf.
I understood every word.Yes,I'm an Aussie.
@@iamf6641 And what manner of shitskin are you?
@@ZeddicusTheMage celtic
I’m Irish and can understand everything too
I'm southern and I understood it, it's really not to hard to
Good for you
ok im form Norfolk, England but this sounds almost the exact same as my local dialect, especially at 1:44
This is my favorite place to vacation. You have to drive and hour south of kitty hawk to get to the ferry that takes you to Ocracoke. Hatteras island is also very nice and quiet
Our favorite way to get there was take the 2 hour 30 minute ferry from Swan Quarters on the mainland.
Yes! And if you love to camp then I recommend going to Frisco before taking the ferry!
My neighbor's dog is named Hattie after that island !
Peter Goezinya it’s pronounced Kinnakeet. 😜. Haha. My wife is from there. Just got back from vacation last week.
You people are ruining Ocracoke.
As a native of Cape Hatteras, I can confirm that we still have the”Hoigh Toider” accent too.
Harkers Island as well. It’s not gone.
@@denismguitar1552 Agreed.
Keep the accent
I always thought it was just my town on long island who had this accent. So interesting to see how the old fishing families really stuck with their traditions and way of life for so long. Hope it never goes away there. Long Island is not the same as when I was growing up. Hardly recognize it anymore. It's sad too.
Interesting... hadn't heard that or experienced it when I was in Buxton a year or so ago. Will need to go back and dig a little deeper into the local culture. What a special place to have been from : )
"I live on the coast of NC and never heard this"
No, you live in Raleigh and vacation at the beach, but only visit chain restaurants and boutique stores that sell overpriced beach shells...
Word
I'm from England, but live in Raleigh, I vacation at the beach and only buy food from local fish markets and farmers markets/roadside farm stands; I do collect shells if they're proper, but would never buy one from a store...and I heard about this dialect years ago...so maybe you're right.
As someone who lives at on the coast, you could not have said it any better
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Lol exactly 😂
I live there, it’s like a whole different language.
There is an island in Maryland where they sound the same! Smith Island! They say Mommocked, they say "I feel like I've been pulled through a keyhole". There should be a meetup!
I think Tangier Island in Virginia as well.
As a teen living in Michigan I think this dialect sounds quite pleasant! I absolutely would love to learn it.
That they live on a small part of this island, is not exactly true...."Hoi Toiders" live as far south as Harkers Island and Beaufort, NC
there are even some in northeast they are all over caterer really
I've heard it up in Ahoski and Murfreesboro.
I thought hoi riders was a reference to people from the mainland.
@@magnifibentley Calabash isn't _quite_ a hoi toider but not far... it's almost in SC. The BEST fish/shrimp/crab restaurants are in Calabash.
I’m English-South African and I understood everything what he said
Didn't know Trevor Noah had an alternative youtube account
@@mefnow lol, sure he is the only south african who speaks english 😉🤣
The Lumbee dialect in NC is also worth checking out.
I know a Lumbee right off by their unique accent. Good humble, God fearing people. Alot of my friends are Lumbee.
I was in a small town south Carolina where most of the blacks still talked English/french. I got out of the car at the gas station and you could have swore you're in Louisiana.
@@caseykerr9693 maybe gullah or geechie?
@@phillong8591 yessir i appreciate your comment.
I went to Oakracoke for a school fieldtrip (I'm from Charlotte) and I met some people with this dialect.
MakeupNinja xD from Charlotte as well
MakeupNinja xD ay I’m from Charlotte as well
Awesome guys! You gotta love Queen City! 👑
I’m also from Charotte
I'm from charlotte too!
As someone who is absolutely in love with this island and has been there countless times, I highly recommend visiting. It's a small town where everyone knows each other, everything basically closes at around 9-10, and it's one of those places where you can go out and skate late at night and just enjoy the village, unbound by worry or stress.
Also, Howard's Pub is the greatest restaurant. I recommend the EVERYTHING.
And the High Sheriff is a Constutional Peace Officer! Not a statute and code revenue officer, imho! Thank you, sir.
Skate on a bike path? Skate park or rink?
@@LisaKEntertainment no skate park as far as im aware (i havent been in a few years) but PLENTY of sidewalk space for skating!!
This is an old video. but as a native North Carolinian I love coming back to it every once in a while because it makes me so happy to hear this dialect being preserved on film. NC has so many different dialects, almost as many as its 100 counties! This state is more than 200 years older than the United States itself and there are a lot of little spots that are true testaments to the history of this state and the nation.
It's a bit like Newfoundland or Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. They all must be related maybe remnants of English (UK) in isolated areas from when the US and Canada were colonized.
If I just heard it without listening too closely, I'd assume it was from some fishing village on the east coast (of Canada).
Definitely Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia
That’s exactly what happened. Read about the dialects of the east coast islands one time. It’s because most of them were isolated for so long the language is still spoken almost unchanged. There are pockets of lost languages up and down the coast from Canada to Florida.
I'm from central NC and notice that people along the Pamlico sound and eastern part of the state pronounce O's with a strong accent. It's not full brogue but a little bit of that dialect remains in place.
I live only a few hours from Ocracoke, I didn't even realize that this dialect wasn't normal. I'm just used to it
People from down east, harkers island or salter path sound like this too.
Sounds alot like my parents yelling at me in Gaelic
I was born and raised in NC for 39 years and never heard about this but going to learn more about them.
I think don Vito from viva la bam is from here lol 😂😂
Spencer7445 _
He died in late 2015
Lmao I'd forgotten about him! As soon as I read his name though, I saw and heard him in my head being pissed at Bam. Lol thanks for that. Awesome.
Actually, it’s not gonna disappear anytime soon. Mainland Hyde County, some of the Outer Bankers, and Eastern Beaufort County share the dialect.
I'm glad! Some TV show has to popularise it by making the actors speak it lol
I live in North Carolina and Never heard anyone talk like that
I've lived in NC all my life and never heard of this dialect! Went to okracoke on vacation a few summers ago...beautiful islands, I loved Portsmouth island best💖
this is a beautiful place! would love to spend a couple cozy days there!
Visit Wanchese or Harkers Island
It’s astonishing how different places in America have so many different dialects and accents. If you go to a small country like Germany, everyone has the same accent. America being so diverse and being the 3rd largest country, is so diverse. Still don’t understand why there’s so much hate here
Just here thanks to Andy, and as an Australian I can safely say I didn't understand a word of any of that,. If I ever get over there I'll definitely pay a visit 👌
We went to the outer banks last summer. I seen that place on the map. It looked like you need a boat to get to it. If I remember correctly it’s the best place for collecting shells.
I’ve lived in NC for 17 years now. I’ve traveled all over the state and have not once heard this dialect
Then you need to get out more often because I’ve lived here for 32 years and have heard it quite often especially down East
So.....I'm gonna guess y'all don't come to Raleigh or Durham. I've never heard anyone talk like this.
It sounds like it's basically in the Outer Banks. So if you've always lived on the mainland, I don't imagine you would have ever heard this dialect. I hadn't either, but I'm in Florida. We've got a bunch of crazy dialects down here too.
@@riggs20 even visiting the outer Banks, Ive never heard anyone speak like that.
I'd love a video about the Gullah language, which you find south of Ocracoke.
Gullah is very south down towards Charleston SC
My parents grew up down east but moved only 30 minutes west and lost their accent. I don’t have this accent my grandparents do, most people where I live have never heard of it even though it’s so close.
The guy on the boat has the most non-American sounding accent to me, sounds aussie/Irish with a hint of southern English. The other Speakers felt much more in a midway transitional phase between American and English
I've lived in North Carolina my whole life and never knew that this was a thing and I've even been there on that island multiple times.
Sounded like a mixture of British mainly west county accents, frist time i heard it understood 99% of it
I've lived in NC for a long time. Central NC and coastal NC. Never heard this accent. It's rare indeed.
Tangier Island in VA is another place with a unique accent/language. I went there to apply for the job of Town Sergeant (the only cop on the island/in the town) about 10yr ago now and I still think about it, the beauty of the place and Cam Slick of the water that day (their "word" for smooth water on the bay).
NC native, there are like 20 different native dialects in the state. Nc is a big state its over 530 miles and around 8.5hr to drive from moyock (va/nc) to murphy (ga/tn/nc) state lines.
This story is false. The exact same brogue is all along what we call "downeast" carteret county NC. Harkers island is especially thick with this same accent and I talk to downeasters every single day. We have thousands of hightiders in carteret county. It's not an ocracoke thing as much as a deep coastal remote thing.
Yeah I know many people from Harkers Island who speak Brogue
Although this brogue is more common than just around Ocracoke & Hatteras, it is most common where there is not a high and steady transient population, thus many more living their whole lives "down east"! It is more subtle but nevertheless there, even in places like Morehead City. I grew up in Morehead and even though I moved away in my late teens, I was asked for decades afterwards, what part of England, Australia or Mississippi, I was from!
I literally have lived on the coast of North Carolina my entire life and I have never heard of this..
I lived in Currituck County NC 40 years ago and would go fishing out of Poplar Branch Landing 60 years ago. Most every native there spoke this heavy brogue that retained mostly Cornwall peoples accents especially in Looe. I knew a Mr. Rupert Parker oh boy he sounded like he was from England. That county and Poplar Branch had no roads into it until the 1920's and was very isolated.
The only outside voices they heard were people on the boats that came in from Virginia to buy geese, ducks, oysters, fish and game, etc. Especially in an era before radio. Mr. Rupert Parker
was in his 60's in early 60's so born 1900 about, way before radio. They would say Hoid County
instead of Hyde County Like Floyd. The telling part is they would put up tins of salted spots.
Corned spots they also called it. Scale and gut a spot, heads on flay it open flat like a butterfly. Sprinkle salt all over it packing one by one in a big tin with a tight fitting tin lid. I ate many a salted brined spot fried dinner I tell ya. They corned fish like that in Cornwall. Most of that part
of Currtuck and OBX were settled by English settlers in mid 17th century and I reckon as they say
people from Cornwall knew how to fish, make and mend nets and live that way. The accent was not
disturbed much for about 300 years
i went here for vacation, its pretty nice for a beach vacation, but bad if you want to have fun, theres nothing around
ive lived in NC all my life and have never ever heard of this lmao
or maybe u need to learn more about your state lol
I'm surprised that no one with the last name Willis has commented on this video.
Though it is present on ocracoke as the video clearly demonstrates, I have friends in carteret county and close to Davis island/cape lookout that have the high tide/down east accent. I have also heard there are other versions of this accent further up on the northern coasts of the US. It’s wonderful to hear the accent and the passion those have in wanting to preserve their heritage for future generations.
Erik Singer will carry on it's tradition.
It sounds very similar to the Guinea people in eastern VA and what you hear spoken (though rarely now) on Tangier Island off the Northern Neck of VA.
What the world needs to lose, is not these peoples way of living or talking as a lot of commenters suggest but whats needs to be lost is those very same commenters rude and poor attitudes.
I might have a bit of that, I know a lot of folks that have that Accent know while growing up and I live near there. Mix between that and the most classic southern Accent you ever heard.
Wait.......NC has a dialect?????? Sounds like they're speaking binary
I've lived here my whole life and never heard of that either until I went to Ocracoke but I don't think it's any different than the Cajun and Acadian dialects in Louisiana
Definitely heard something similar to Australian but not really hearing English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish personally.
I hate how he has the console rigged on the bow of that Carolina skiff.
It’s like those people in rdr2 that you and Javier rob that developed their own dialect.
I can hear so much South West English in their accent,the rounding of the R's!
i just want to see a newfounderlander and a hoitider together speaking their words in their accents and they would get along, i think if a newfoundlander moved to this place he would be accepted very well
Love It! Sounds Great!
Anyone from the southwest of England would have no problem whatsoever understanding this dialect.
My family is from the coast and this sounds normal to me.
The really interesting thing about this, and part that many people find sad (me included to an extent), is that this is what humans and language do. Think about ancient languages of Hebrew or Arabic, those language speakers have changed since they were first developing just by pure age and transition. Someone who spoke English 700 years ago were still speaking English, but most of us don't understand it, yet it's still "English"when they were speaking it, just as our "English" is to us.
It just proves that, like us humans, nothing is forever. We exist for a finite period of time, the the world of our experience dies with us. It shows that the people around us, the people we leave behind, see what we had and take what means something to them on to whomever they experience.
There is something very beautiful in the way language evolves, and it makes it that much more precious now, and some of us strive to, at least, document it in case it gets lost.
IMPORTANT Subnote: We, as white people, are actually very lucky to have this kind open availability of dialects and understanding of our heritage in language because most of the countries our ancestors colonized do not have the same level of access that we do. Us getting to see the roots of our language to specific European areas, tribes, and countries is very niche, and not a lot of the world gets that. I hope people are humbled in that. Because it is a precious thing to be able to identify parts of yourself to regions and ancestors.
Their accents to me are a mix of a southern American accent and West country England… they sound just like my grandfather that was from Devon UK.
Love!!! This is the most non-American American accent I've ever heard.
i imagine this is what people from cornwall sound like
It's the same in Cumbria in England, the dialect and accent is disappearing
Reminds me a little bit of the MD/VA islands in the Chesapeake
I don't know what y'all are talking about, I was there last year, and just about every local had that brogue. The tourists don't live there all year around, so the brogue is going to survive I promise.
There are videos of people demonstrating the English accent of Shakespeare's time and this accent sounds a lot like it.
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Didn't even mention Harkers Island.
U can hear a bit of a Philadelphia accent in certain words
Holy cow, I live most of my life in South Carolina and never heard anyone talk like this.
It’s ago when some things fade away.
Sounds a lot like they old Cornish boys. Not the buggers underground - them as wehn after the pilchards.
One time I met a girl from Alabama who for the first 5 minutes I could've sworn she was British.
Authentic, pre-vowel shift English. Shakespearian English. This is what Shakespears plays sounded like. . . . . .
These people have big time Pogue energy
Wow this is cool I had never heard of this..
Ever wonder why British actors can do Southern American accents so well? This is why. When you hear these folks speak, you can literally hear how the British accent morphed into southern twang.
How did I never know about this---- I was born here
I think the guy in the recliner ate the others.....
guess i’m a dingbatter yaknow...bc I’ve lived in NC for my whole life basically and never knew this existed
Driving from Florida to Pennsylvania on I-95 I stopped in a Waffle House in the middle of the night. I listen to a truck driver flirt with a waitress for 10 minutes I didn't understand a single damn thing either one of them said.
Keith D Maust do you remember where you stopped??
Sounded like the noninonono meme
Keith D Maust Lmao
In North Carolina I bet xD
Too funny
Went to basic training with a kid from here holy cow did he get made fun of
This cracked me up.
I only wish i could have been there
CageKicker
What you gonna do tough guy?
@@someone-wi4xl lol what are you talking about
@@someone-wi4xl what you said doesent even make sense
They sound Australian, Jamaican, and Irish all at the same time.
Not really Irish
@@RedHair651 They do sound Irish, IE the dubliners. Look at their surnames Rex O'Neal, Lynn ect.
Yess ha I was gonna call it Cockney-Scottish-Australian.
I'd say it sounds a bit like a Norfolk/SW accent more than Australian
Kind of like Canada's Newfoundland accent.
I've lived in north Carolina my whole life and never heard of this dialect before
Don't worry it's very real.
You have to find older people who lived on the Outer Banks their whole lives. Like this video states these dialects started because these places were so isolated. As more bridges and ferries were added the isolation ended. As more people from other places moved in, this dialect has been forced out. I knew people from Cedar Island who spoke in a similar manner.
Same here
I think their accent is charming. I’m from the mountains of NC so I only go out to the outer banks for vacation every few years and I’m probably one of those people who wrongly assumed they were foreign when people spoke that way.
Same, but I’m from western NC. Just moved to the Raleigh area about 3 months ago and everybody thinks I have an accent out here, but the High Tiders are next level.
This reminds me of that scene in Hot Fuzz where they need 2 translators
😂😂
what does he mean this one
He duz fer thissun
Best movie
SEA MINE
The producer did a very poor job of showcasing the actual accent......thanx!
Yep. Shoulda had them speaking in the dialect to each other and subtitled it.
Denny I agree
And more than one person ...lol the same guy talked pretty much the whole time.
Exactly! I've been waiting for someone to do a proper doc on this brogue...
Most I've seen don't do a decent job at really showing how close it is to its native tongue...
They just focus on individual words and phrases...
@@denny9634 Why? it doesn't need to be subtitled, because it's very easy to understand. The only time that the brougue is hard to understand, is when they talk fast, but you can say that with literally any language or dialect
This just proves that if you put British and Irish people on an island, they will make funny accents
Just wait until you hear about the islands British and Irish people are from.
@@Dthenn LMFAO
The American south has had British immigrants mainly from southern England like the Isle of Wight, London, Bristol, West Country, and we also had the Irish, folks from Wales, Scotland etc. in the 13 British colonies located in the coast of British North America 🇬🇧 which is now the present day independent nation of the United States of America 🇺🇲
@@Dthenn still applies
@@billul1 True. See: every accent in the British isles. Source: live on Great Britain.
I live in North Carolina and I had *no* *idea* that, that even existed.
Same
Me either. Lol
Lol, you probably speak just like this loljk
There’s a documentary, I think made by the linguist in this video, called “the Voices of North Carolina”, that is amazing. It covers Lumbee, Outer Banks English, Mountain Talk, Cherokee, Africa-American English, the English of the recent Hispanic immigrants and their children, and of course the dialect used by Whites in South Cities. You can find it all UA-cam. It’s made by linguists at UNC so there’s only one for North Carolina, but it’s so well done I wish there was one for every state in the union.
Unless you frequent ocracoke and possibly the outer banks you probably won't hear it. I have some buddies in hyde county who can put on the accent like they grew up with it but I've only heard the real thing a couple of times myself. The man at 1:00 sells antiques in ocracoke so if you wanted to hear it you could honestly go and meet him.
I swear North Carolina has every accent in the world.
One of which I think is Gullah
I live there and ive met like 3 Australians and im part irish my accent though
90% chance they won't have heard mine there. (EXTREMELY low global population but damn do we get around!)
I didn’t even know we had a dialect, I just thought it’s dialect was like a mix of country and like Pennsylvanian
I can’t tell if I have NC accent ;-;
The Carolinas have a ton of different dialects. From the mountains to the piedmont to the coasts and beyond. Dont get me started with the appalachian dialect.
@Alex Kalicinski Exactly, it is plumb wonderful to hear that one being spoken.
At least the Appalachian accent is still safe
Appalachian speaker here. Raised from birth with it. Sure is a strange way of speaking.
Don’t forget the Gullah dialect from South Carolina
Funny thing is the appalachain talk is even up into mid Indiana, many of our ancestors myself included come plum up here from down yonder specifically rock castle KY looking for jobs all up the Eastern side of Indiana all the way up into Winchester Indiana, which is aways up in there. Interesting fact. It's funny some of us will go round places 30 40 mile west and they ask where your from. Little pockets here n there I reckon.
A lot of fellow Carolinians on here saying there is no such dialect in NC. Obviously if you don’t live on the coast you will never meet someone like this, but if you have lived there long enough you are definitely bound to hear stuff that sounds like this. You can’t live in Raleigh and state that there is no accent here lol
For real. Even deep in the Blue Ridge and Smokies there's different dialects.
In down east N.C. the blokes call China “Chiner”!
I've fished with quite a few Ocockers
True. I’m from the piedmont and I’ve been to the outer banks and heard this dialect from locals there.
I live on OBX and never heard this.
Just read an article about this place on the BBC news and wanted to hear the way they spoke.
That brought me here as well
Same
Me too! They need to preserve this dialect. It mustn't go into extinction.
Also from BBC: www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english
As a Canadian, to me it sounds a bit like the Newfoundland accent. Slightly less Irish-esque though, with a tiny southern twang thrown in.
same here
So basically it’s an island filled with
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Dang ole
@@MrKritterh smh soo arrogant
BS GAMING
dadadango
I love that
You ride a ferry an hour away from a land port and hope that there's no bad storms after you get dropped there or you're stuck on the island for the night.
Sounds close to West Country English. Don't lose it !
It sounds close to one of our dialects in Louisiana
@@Splexity Dude YES!!! Its got a slightttt Acadian ring to it but there's definitely some Cajun there!
@@jmullentech Yeah definitely, I should know I'm from Baton Rouge
I'm afraid it's only a matter of time, a microcosm of the larger scale
@@Splexity I'm from NC but I've got family down in Cut Off. Love that shit