The Carolina Brogue: Language of the Outer Banks

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@AlisonBryen 5 жыл бұрын

This dialect is like where British English ends and American English begins. I love it !

@mickmarsbar81 7 ай бұрын

It really is! They sound like they’re from the English West Country 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸

@captaincapitalism9535 3 жыл бұрын

There’s a lot to be said about the benefits of long distance communication and easy travel, but a definite negative is that it so often leads to the watering down of local languages, dialects, and cultures. The more kids grow up watching Hollywood movies and talking on the internet the less they’ll sound like their parents and grandparents and the more they’ll sound like everyone else. A lot of people view having a strong accent as being hickish and backwards, but I see it as a sign that they still have a strong local culture and haven’t been assimilated into the gray mass of standard language.

@imusam999 11 жыл бұрын

North Carolina seems like a very interesting place. The closest I've ever been is Savannah, which isn't really close at all. I'd never heard this dialect before. "An arn I could borree." - I love that. Reminds me of the northern English accents that other Englishmen can't understand. I'd really like to hear more. What a remarkable country I live in: So many people separated by a common language.

@slantsix6344 7 жыл бұрын

Savannah, GA and Charleston, SC has French words. Ask them to say the word "Boat"

@ninetails370 5 жыл бұрын

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@susanlouis4875 4 жыл бұрын

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@susanlouis4875 4 жыл бұрын

@dan-patrickobrien3580 Жыл бұрын

@@slantsix6344 lol yeah in the lowcountry most of us would pronounce "boat" like "bwot" it's more of an African or Caribbean inflection, but there is ALOT of French influence too.

@ohioalphornmusicalsawman2474 7 жыл бұрын

Barrah and Tuhmarrah are pronunciations heard in Delmarva, South Jersey, and even around Pittsburgh. My in-laws, from near Pittsburgh, take a Shahr in the mornin, have a fahr in the fahrplace, and eat baked pahtaydas.

@connorpusey5912 4 жыл бұрын

OhioAlphorn MusicalSawman I’m from Delmarva, and Delmarva natives do not talk like people in Jersey or Pittsburgh. The only thing that is similar with South Jersey is the pronunciation of water. We say wooder (those in Jersey kind of say woodah, from what I’ve heard). But I don’t think it’s because of Delmarva’s proximity to Jersey, as the locals of Smith and Tangier Island also say wooder and they’ve never had any influence from South Jersey. The Delmarva dialect (including Smith and Tangier island) is extremely similar to the one in this video.

@susanlouis4875 4 жыл бұрын

@macfisher1814 2 жыл бұрын

The Pittsburgh thing is bc of contact with the Appalachian dialect area.

@ohioalphornmusicalsawman2474 2 жыл бұрын

@@connorpusey5912 The Upper and Lower Shore have some dialect differences. Cecil/Kent Counties are upper shore, definite difference from Easton and especially Salisbury. My Dad grew up near the C&D Canal in Delaware, spoke differently from relatives near Chestertown.

@connorpusey5912 2 жыл бұрын

@@ohioalphornmusicalsawman2474 I’m from central Delmarva (Laurel, Salisbury, Seaford, Sharptown etc)

@F25Xanatos Жыл бұрын

Having been in Carteret for 7 years now, I don’t even recognize it much anymore. It sounds completely normal. I used to be all like, “say that again.”

@myronsmith8338 9 жыл бұрын

Love the High Tide Brogue! I am from Atlantic.

@philliphutson7250 5 жыл бұрын

I love Down East. I fish on Portsmouth Island. Lived in Swansboro about 20 years.

@susanlouis4875 4 жыл бұрын

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@carriersignal Жыл бұрын

Perlantic !

@anizadark7492 3 жыл бұрын

I'm from the inner coastal waterways so I can understand what they are saying. We have about 6 different dialects in NC depending on the area you were raised.

@sylviaross5486 6 жыл бұрын

I don't know why people can't understand them. I understand them perfectly. Of course, I grew up in northeastern Alabama, southern Appalachia.

@louisedwards6681 5 жыл бұрын

I'm from Roanoke Rapids North Carolina and I don't have any problem understanding the Outer Banks people!

@forthefunofit3230 5 жыл бұрын

my gosh...my home town, roanoke rapids!!!!!

@louisedwards6681 5 жыл бұрын

@@forthefunofit3230 hay how ya doin

@forthefunofit3230 5 жыл бұрын

@@louisedwards6681 not bad thanks and hope you are as well. actually i was born RR, raised in Emporia just over the border.

@nicholasoutland2396 5 жыл бұрын

Mine too!

@susanlouis4875 4 жыл бұрын

@danieltinney8082 Жыл бұрын

I’m from Tidewater Virginia. And their accent sounds very similar to what we hear around here. Very easy to understand for me

@shanefelkel9966 Жыл бұрын

Definitely hear the West Country coming through. As a fellow southener whose accent is primarily Ulster scot with some plantation southern mixed in, I can hear the difference.

@mauryginsberg7720 6 жыл бұрын

That accent is East Anglian! not "south west England" I think it is something to do with how the US was settled, if Scandinavians went north to the colder climates, maybe East Anglian fishermen were settled in an area that is similar to where they knew from home and it does seem similar, being surrounded by water and stuck out into the sea. Maybe the people got on the boat in the south west of England but were from elsewhere, like the Pilgrims, they were not from Plymouth! The were from Lincoln, then they liven in Holland leaving behind thank's giving dinner in Holland then they caught the boat in Plymouth.

@anizadark7492 3 жыл бұрын

Most of NC was settled by English, Irish and Scottish peoples and especially the inner coast and coast as well as the mountain area.

@elhollins5988 8 жыл бұрын

"irn ta barrie" - iron to borrow (last scene). Seem like fine folk! beautiful country.

@aetheldread 8 жыл бұрын

Most of the dialect sounds foreign to me but what I would consider closest to the colonial accent... along with Tangier Island VA... but when she said she asked for an "Arn to barrie" I'd've known exactly what she meant living in southern KY just north of Nashville. That pronunciation of Iron and borrow is very common here.

@ohioalphornmusicalsawman2474 7 жыл бұрын

aetheldread I knew just what She said as well. My relatives on Maryland's Eastern Shore Arn their clothes, and the car has Tars. They also say barrah and tuhmarrah. My father grew up just South of Wilmington, DE and he talks this way. My relatives in South Jersey also talk this way. In fact, Hoi Toider, to me, sounds like upper Delmarva, with a little Southern mixed in.

@troybonner91 6 жыл бұрын

A lot of the original Outer Banks settlers came south by boat from Maryland and Delaware. The original settlers from the other Eastern NC counties came from south Virginia. Most of my family is from the rest of Eastern NC, but my great grandmother's family was from the Outer Banks.

@scottmcclean3257 7 жыл бұрын

Home SWEET HOME!!!!!!

@hayvenforpeace Жыл бұрын

This is pretty much identical to a coastal Maine accent (the one you hear north of Portland, not the York Co. Boston accent). People from the same areas settled both places, so it makes sense.

@usd6204 5 жыл бұрын

I am from the Midwest and have no issue understanding most of what they’re saying? I’ve seen the other videos on this brogue in an attempt to hear the “English/Irish” accent that commenters are claiming these people have,in the other videos I couldn’t hear the similarity but in this video I can vaguely see the comparison..

@francophone. 4 жыл бұрын

Some people say that they can understand them easily, but maybe the accent has changed a lot over the past 50-100 years (with the introduction of radio and television).

@gundog7199 3 жыл бұрын

I’m from southern Indiana and I love Downeast

@nosatisfaction2278 6 жыл бұрын

They had a hotdog shop that looked just like a UFO back in the day at Frisco and really enjoyed it as a kid

@jacobperry2281 9 ай бұрын

That place just burned down about a year ago!

@WarpandXeno88 9 ай бұрын

I'm from Yadkin County NC and oddly enough I understood every word these people said. Yadkinese is its own special language too.

@keemo904 3 ай бұрын

I am from Manteo Nc my grandmother sound like that ans most of my family does as well

@blamsamblam87 2 жыл бұрын

For the love of God can somebody please tell me the name of the song the man is singing in the backround

@kfwfb534 Жыл бұрын

Contrary to what many absurdly claim, the majority of white americans have british (especially English origin) it is just due to being in america for ten generations, many are not aware of their origins. In these areas, i would contend the vast majority of whites are of english descent. As for the dialect, it feels more eastern english, esoecially east anglian. Do many locals still have this accent? Younger ones?

@keithdriscoll4579 3 ай бұрын

Ya’ll want some accents…. Head to Down East Carteret County. It’s a different dialect a different cultures from Cedar Island to South River! Down Easter’s are the best around. But don’t cross ‘em. Them’s Blackbeard’s kinfolk

@dan-patrickobrien3580 Жыл бұрын

It's like a mix of New England, lowcountry and new Orleans dialect 😅

@austx290 6 жыл бұрын

I'm from Winston-Salem, NC and I had a hard time understanding my brothers and sisters out there in the OB! LOL

@thommysides4616 5 жыл бұрын

I've got tons of kin in your town. We use to love going to Ocracoke in the summer. God bless....

@JK360noscope 4 жыл бұрын

Ha! They can't even say Buena right around over in Winston. "Boona Vista"

@dodi1205jb 4 жыл бұрын

Lol..I grew up in WS. It took me 30 years to understand what my Grandpa from Harkers Islsnd was even saying to me.

@susanlouis4875 4 жыл бұрын

@DesiderataTruth 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you needed to be further west to get it? My family's from Wilkes County, our accent is also pretty thick and old. I understood the people in the video clear as day. Sidenote: I had a grandma named Bunie Vesta. Her name was never spelled the same way consistently enough to know the "correct" spelling, but I think a Census taker once figured out the origin was "Buenavista".

@1BlackSheep Жыл бұрын

I've been all over this country and it seems everyone knows I'm from North Carolina.

@GUERRYROBSON 3 жыл бұрын

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@AndersonHobbyBoy 3 ай бұрын

Is that country music?

@1112-g1x 5 жыл бұрын

yup says fiiiiiiiiishhhhh like a ozzy

@tianabrown3074 Жыл бұрын

Who are the people that can't understand them? I'm African-American and I can understand them clearly even though I was born and raised in Chicago. But of course all African Americans have roots in the south and I guess there are similarities in dialects across racial and cultural lines.