. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. BOOK MARKET The Nature of the Coast in Fact and Fiction From the unfamiliar mysteries of nature to a mystery? of a familiar nature, our book market offers a few reading choices for cool autumn nights. By Daun Daemon • Language Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling- Estes. The University of North Carolina Press. Box 2288, Chapel Hill, NC, 27515. 165 pages. Hardcover, $ Paperback. $ ISBN 0-8078-4626-0. Folks at the coast need not
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. BOOK MARKET The Nature of the Coast in Fact and Fiction From the unfamiliar mysteries of nature to a mystery? of a familiar nature, our book market offers a few reading choices for cool autumn nights. By Daun Daemon • Language Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling- Estes. The University of North Carolina Press. Box 2288, Chapel Hill, NC, 27515. 165 pages. Hardcover, $ Paperback. $ ISBN 0-8078-4626-0. Folks at the coast need not hop a ship to the British Isles to catch an earful of brogue, but they better listen fast — the brogue of Ocracoke Island is fading. Linguists Wolfram and Schilling- Estes trace the historical influences that gave rise to the dialect and the modern forces that erode it now. The authors examine impacts ranging from Shakespeare to Irish settlers, commercial fishing to tourism. By the end of the history lesson, the reader has a good feel for how languages evolve. The authors are most engaging when they slough their scholars* skins and talk to readers as they would a group of native islanders at Albert Styron's General Store. Their descriptions of the dialect's elements will help any dingbatter be less quamished about saying a word with an 0'cocker. That is, the book can act as a guide for outsiders who might feel a little queasy about chatting a while with an Ocracoke native. A glossary of terms in the second chapter and pronun- ciation guides throughout are helpful, and a vocabulary quiz tests your brogue skill. If you score high, you're an "island ;. The last chapter consists of stories told by several 0"cockers. Though the anecdotes have little to do with the brogue, they offer a poignant glimpse of Ocracoke life in days gone by. These humorous reminiscences will stay clear in your mind long after you've shelved Hoi Toide. Nature The Nature of North C
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