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lauradi7dw ([personal profile] lauradi7dw) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2019-06-26 02:09 am (UTC)

Ocracoke speech

This is the coincidence of the day for me, because I was just reading an article today in Our State magazine, which I get as a present from my parents. The article was about restaurants on Ocracoke Island, but there was a passing mention of Hoi toid in people's speech. When I was a kid, the NC tourism folks put out a booklet called "The Queen's English," claiming that some of the NC coastal accent and vocabulary was passed down from Elizabethan England, but I think that has been pretty much debunked (while we're speaking of NC, after all, the source of the term bunk(um)).
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bunkum

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