. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. PUCK a sweetheart - . Old English words keep turning up, too, on Ocracoke. If a dingbatter gets quamish standing on the pizzer, an Ococker won't mammick him. Translated: If an outsider gets a stomachache standing on the porch, an Ocracoke native won't bother him. But the trait that sets many Ocockers, Outer Bankers and Ca'e Bankers apart from other coastal communities — and keeps tourists and the media agog — are the "Hoigh Toide" pronunciations that sound more British than crumpets to our Americ
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. PUCK a sweetheart - . Old English words keep turning up, too, on Ocracoke. If a dingbatter gets quamish standing on the pizzer, an Ococker won't mammick him. Translated: If an outsider gets a stomachache standing on the porch, an Ocracoke native won't bother him. But the trait that sets many Ocockers, Outer Bankers and Ca'e Bankers apart from other coastal communities — and keeps tourists and the media agog — are the "Hoigh Toide" pronunciations that sound more British than crumpets to our American ears. "What toime is it hoigh toide on the sound soide?" you might hear in Wanchese, Ocracoke or Hatteras, says Ford Reid in The Coast. More a "uhy" sound than an "oy" sound, this diphthong links the dialects of the Outer Banks together like a long, sturdy rope. To a trained ear, the sound comes from the back of the tongue, not the lips (as in "boy"), blending the "au" sound in "astronaut" and "box" with the "i" sound in "sister" and "; "I think what we're dealing with is an Outer Banks phenomenon," Wolfram says. Migrations between islands, following fish and escaping storms, were typical years ago. MYTH AND MYSTERIES Such strange and wonderful speech must have exotic explana- tions, people think. So for decades, they've been searching for an answer and the holy grail of lan- guage — a pure English dialect straight from the queen. Some islanders think pirates, castaways from England or travelers shipwrecked off the coast first brought the brogue to the Outer Banks and Ocracoke. Others say it's Australian or Arabian. Not so, Dough says. Talk about Arabs began after Cal H. Wylie published a novel in which he portrayed the sandy soils of the Outer Banks as "Arabia," Dough Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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