Hoi toide on the Outer Banks
Subtitle: the story of the Ocracoke brogue
By: Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes.
Contributors: Schilling-Estes, Natalie.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: English language -- Dialects -- North Carolina -- Ocracoke Island; English language -- Dialects -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks; Americanisms -- North Carolina -- Ocracoke Island; Americanisms -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks; Ocracoke Island (N.C.) -- Social conditions; Outer Banks (N.C.) -- Social conditions; Ocracoke Island (N.C.) -- Languages; Outer Banks (N.C.) -- Languages
Other titles: High tide on the Outer Banks
Description: "Hoi toide," for those unfamiliar with the brogue, is Ocracoker for "high tide." As many visitors to the island are quick to observe, this vibrant dialect - with its unusual pronunciation, vocabulary, and syntax - is one of Ocracoke's most distinctive cultural features. In Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes set out to research the brogue and encourage the preservation and celebration of an important part of a community's rich heritage.

Its authors trace the dialect's history and identify its unique features - even providing a glossary and quiz to augment the reader's knowledge of Ocracoke speech. In the process, they also explore some larger questions on language and the role it plays in a culture's efforts to define and maintain itself.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-162) and index.