Carolina Outer Banks Brogue Vocabulary

[WAKEUPshift111]

Their accents are kind of british... cool!

[deniseobx252]

@WAKEUPshift111 I lived there and this accent comes from British sailors and first immigrants.

[LeHiGuy1]

We got names for them too !!!!

[miamivicepastels83]

i am mad at these nicknames lol

[SirBrackalot]

I never heard of being Whopperjawed til I came out of the closet and became gay, then I was whopperjawed quite often after that!!!!!!!!

[WAKEUPshift111]

@SirBrackalot LMAO ... mad foolish

[SirBrackalot]

My grandmother always said, "Directly" and "Smells like Chiarn!!!" and she was from Great Falls/Kershaw area of South Carolina, not even close to the coast. Please explain????

lol

[StreetSidhe]

Thank you. I have been vacationing in Ocracoke for years, and now I will know when I'm being insulted. LOL

[kendraytb]

Love "whopperjawed." Reminds me of my Dad (from WV) calling something "catawampus."

[TheFlowerSprout]

@kendraytb lol my grandpa says that all the time, catawampas im from w.nc,lol

[gloredaze]

Mommicked, (grieveously tormented)!!! sounds like home to me! My grandfather was from "Piney Pint" aka Stacy, NC, grandmother was born at Diamond Shoals.!!!

miss'em some kinda bad!

[wyattsmommy27]

I love home <3

[khayla5678]

My whole daddy's side of the family is from Down East, in the Wiliston area... this was just like a little slice of home!

[hailvishnu]

Whopperjawed? OMG! I had in-laws in Texas that used a term like that! It sounded more like /wum per jawd/ but still it's obviously the same term. (It meant the same thing too.)

[therandyj]

How odd....I'm from eastern Tn. and we use "mommocked" too.! It's most often used when talking about something being very messed up and/or horrific. The Manson family mommocked up their victims would be an example of the mountain usage.

[erroneousapostrophe]

Sounds a bit like a Norfolk accent - south east. East Anglia with a Wiltshire twang.

Listen to a Norfolk accent:

Allan Smethurst - Hev Yew Gotta Loight Boy?

[WildBillHickums]

its like a north carolina country accent with a british twist

[mentalillnesstalking]

They sort of sound Cornish.

[Shadowsilas]

=) i love hearing this accent, im glad i still live in eastern NC and can hear this accent

[phaedrusalt]

This is the story I heard:

Droime (drime): A bunch of guys are bragging about their manhood. Finally, one exaggerates a little too much, so the other fellows say "draw him", or pull it out and prove it. Over time "draw him" became "droime".

[usmcwife10]

I was born and raised in Harkers Island, NC . I love to watch this video time after time because its the way we talked growing up. we would sit on the pizer and talk and i can remember when i was growing up I said drime once and I was grounded for a week. I guess people wouldnt understand this unless they are from around here.

[CarteretCounty61]

My grandmother, "Mama Dot" is talking about the word "Pizer" and I just agree with some of those who mention how much they love this video and hearing the sounds of home. It's comforting to listen to this clip over and over because it just makes me feel close to my family and the comforts of the Down East area. I read a quote recently by Lena Ennis that said " The Lord works His wonders all over the world, but He lives to the Cape". It's a beautiful place and I love the area and the people.

[gregr59]

They seemed to have a bit of trouble offering a one-word translation for the last word in the video-- the curse word "drime". I'm not from anywhere near the Banks, but I will submit that it is synonymous with "bull sh*t" -- and is to be said in an angry/incredulous/dismissive manner.

[shylomike]

I am from elizabeth city and have a lot of family down there and I live at the beach part time. I have said Mommocked all my life and my accent is more southern mixed with the beach brogues. The coast is much different than the rest of the state, I live in Greenville now.

[dmarcw]

Wanchesers are unique! I've known a few Midgetts and Daniels over the years, but I married a Kinnakeeter myself.

[Sparky5459]

Yall reckon this shoulda been put on here, Now they'll know when were talking bout em

[redbullbundy]

this is the best video on youtube i love being from there

[jn20000]

damn i love living here. i know about half the ppl in this movie. this is true downeast. i hate it when i'm driving like up to raleigh for instance, and i see "Downeast tire sales" or something along those lines, in smithfield, or clayton. they are about 100 miles away from downeast, but consider themselves downeast. stupid.....

[daftintendo]

@jn20000 Haha, well, you've gotta understand, over here in the mountains (Western North Carolina), everything is down east of us.

[lagoonlover123]

OMG , not the kansas and the carolina crowd this town aint bigg enough for the two of us .. Im'a be mommucked with all this crowd in davis shore. Ya got me mom all wopper cocked with all this mess goin on. AHh well Happy 50th honey and pops.

[viceorvirtue1022]

this makes me wish I was back downeast so much...

[bookhound63]

Wow! This brings back memories, my mom's family is from Cape Carteret and they talked just like this.

[JabberwockyXIII]

I live on the Outer Banks and I don't talk like this at all, but I'm upper Outer Banks, like Nags Head and KDH, not Corolla or Currituck. I sort of feel left out : / I wish I spoke like this some times. I've never even heard any of these phrases! My friends grandfather speaks like this though, he's so cool. He lives in Manns Harbor.

[MrMindfucker]

No your talking high tider's!

[bookhound63]

Don't you mean hoy toyders? I love the accent.

[duncapunk]

In Elizabeth City, NC some of the locals sound straight out of England. It's really beautiful, almost like entering a time capsule. I hope they never lose that dialect.

[mattdogg65]

@duncapunk that's what happens when you stay so isolated and don't mingle and socialize with other cultures

[3sheetz2thawind]

i remember goin out to the banks as a kid and hearin a lot of these words used! i guess im what they call a "woodser'' cause im from the inland in jacksonville. im livin up in ohio now for a little while and this video brought home right back to me! thank you! good video.

[finbarboyle]

When we say 'deadly' at home, it doesn't mean lethal, it means 'beautiful'. And this is 'deadly'. Thank you.

[kellymmason]

I love this - makes me miss home.

[BigVi123]

Otway, born and raised. I love being from somewhere with history and heritage.

[mattdogg65]

@BigVi123 uhhhhh what town/place doesn't have history?

[MrVlg123]

Can anyone tell me where to buy a copy of the PBS program that these interviews were taken from?

[MrVlg123]

The young guy is my cousin David Hill and the next to last man is his late dad Neil Hill -- They are both the Real Deal!

[diligentile]

I'm from Dallas and never knew this accent existed. Very fascinating... I hear a lot of Scottish/Irish in it.

[chevyls1camaro]

Wow you can REALLY hear the English in this accent. Makes sense too. The English setlled the coastal areas and the Scots-Irish went up into the hills. And if you listen to the accents of each area you can really hear it even to this day. Listen to a modern Ulster Scots person in Northern Ireland and you can see where the Appalachian accent comes from. But these people close to the water sound English.

So damn interesting I love this stuff!

[jpersingeriii]

That first guy is an old friend of mine, Rex O'Neal, what a great guy, and if u go, ask him to do his version of the famous song Shi**y Mop!!! HILARIOUS!!!

[Forcefedglas]

Fart'em up a gum stump! LOL

[CarteretCounty61]

I feel so at home listening to these people because every relative I've ever had spoke this way.....reminds me of my Grandaddy and Sissy.....both from Atlantic

[credle187]

Tore slam up!

[eastcoastclinical]

I think the most unique word missed for downeast is "I gotchee".

From a true dingbatter!

Raleigh, NC

[ReaLizZe7]

I gotcha ole' boy !

[always4Jesus]

Ya'll think you've been MOMMICKED? I've lived in Arkansas the last twenty years. Downeast don't seem the same now...too many Dingbatters.

[phroghog46]

Chicken chocking China Towners

[ddesjman444]

ah, livin in the OBX is just so great

[coastalgirl47]

My Lord honey aint I been mommucked,,,

[jc4duke]

i cant believe this was caught on camera. but it was great to see people i knew. it was home.

[semiramis72]

Wow. Damn if this doesn't take me back home. My accent is so neutral now, I'm sure to be mistaken for a dingbatter. (I hope not!)

[idiotninja]

You might even say your accent has been whopperjawed (if i'm using it right :p )

[sboy1955]

i'm a one a them dingbatters from over swansboro way - moved down here to the east 14 years ago - my Lord honey hain't i been blessed!!!

[capnohan]

its the best sounding brogue in the universe. when I hear it, I know I'm home

[mfd1412ecde]

DRRRRIIMMMMEEE! ha I love this place!

[techguync]

The origins of the word DRIME that I have known growing up maybe the reason it is considered a curse word.

Legion has it that some older kinds were making out in one room of a house and some younger siblings heard the sounds of passion. In the midst of the commotion they could hear the girl yelling ,"Draw Him Ramsey." With a down East accent that was translated to Drime Ramsey. Which is an other way of using the word Drime.

I can see why the elders didn't like kids using this term.

[cappytme]

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!!!

[techguync]

An expression of absolute dismay. Similar is usage to damn with no redeeming qualities. The quantative statement of one having been screwed, blued, and tatooed...

From Old English, Down East dialect

(looking down the barrel, .5 seconds before the lights go out) "Drime"...

[coastalgirl47]

This is for real.. How do I know,, because Im1 of these ppl... DRIME...