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Uploaded by on Sep 12, 2008

An excerpt of the dialect of the Carolina Outer Banks from the documentary Voices of North Carolina.
http://www.talkingnc.com

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  • Christmas 1963 I was in a bus station in L.A., California and heard a guy trying to explain that he was in the military, missed his change of buses and ended up there instead of Harkers Island, N.C. The gal at the ticket window could not understand his brogue. Being from Newport, N.C. I went over and translated for him so that he could get headed back to God's country. If ya ever get chance to assist a down east'er, do it cause they are some of the finest folks around. Buddy Norris

  • There's no state like my state, NORTH CAROLINA!

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  • Never spent a bad day in coastal Carolinas

  • Outer Banks English sounds a lot like Cornish/British English.  watch?v=jW23Zd4X_DI

  • all these people sound like hillbillies to me, not British at all

  • that old guy playing the guitar's name is mr Roy Parsons. i spent a large chunk of my childhood on ocracoke island. Mr Roy taught me so much about life when i was little. unfortunately mr roy passed away but his memory lives on

  • This soo sounds like my Uncle Jimmy..he lives down in Dare County.....Hes deff got the accent....

  • Hoi Toide on the sound soide!! I love it got a bunch of family that talk like that and its epic. Gotta love the diversity of my NC!!!!

  • @drewper73 Yeah, this is pretty common. House is, like you say, "hase" and mouse, "mase". The accent is all over the outer banks and up into Virginia. I grew up in the towns shown in this video but don't live there anymore. I miss it so much.

  • Bloody hell they do sound British.

  • My mom's family is HOI TOIDERS...this is what my nanny sounded like...younguns I been momicked....

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