When he said "Oi tor dirx sahz hoi dar warter fall en digh moonshine nofeesh" *I felt that*

It makes me wonder how many regional accents in the USA were lost when radio and television began to take over between the 1920s and 50s.

When the cameras man goes away “Hey guys we can talk normal now”

They sound Australian, Jamaican, and Irish all at the same time.

Driving from Florida to Pennsylvania on I-95 I stopped in a Waffle House in the middle of the night. I listen to a truck driver flirt with a waitress for 10 minutes I didn't understand a single damn thing either one of them said.

Went to basic training with a kid from here holy cow did he get made fun of

I've lived in NC my whole life, people got different ways of talking. One place has country accents then 30 minutes up the road they got a preppy accent, its weird.

The Carolinas have a ton of different dialects. From the mountains to the piedmont to the coasts and beyond. Dont get me started with the appalachian dialect.

I've lived in north Carolina my whole life and never heard of this dialect before

I live in North Carolina and I had *no* *idea* that, that even existed.

This just proves that if you put British and Irish people on an island, they will make funny accents

"Ocracoke is an island that has always lived around the water" Yes, the floor is made out of floor

This reminds me of that scene in Hot Fuzz where they need 2 translators

The producer did a very poor job of showcasing the actual accent......thanx!

I swear North Carolina has every accent in the world.

Man it would have been cool to ACTUALLY hear them speak it

A lot of fellow Carolinians on here saying there is no such dialect in NC. Obviously if you don’t live on the coast you will never meet someone like this, but if you have lived there long enough you are definitely bound to hear stuff that sounds like this. You can’t live in Raleigh and state that there is no accent here lol

I understood every word.Yes,I'm an Aussie.

As a native of Cape Hatteras, I can confirm that we still have the”Hoigh Toider” accent too.

I'm from Newfoundland and there are a lot of similarities with our dialect I hear straight away. Well it definitely sounds that way to me. So cool. ❤🇺🇲 from 🇨🇦

Just read an article about this place on the BBC news and wanted to hear the way they spoke.

This is my favorite place to vacation. You have to drive and hour south of kitty hawk to get to the ferry that takes you to Ocracoke. Hatteras island is also very nice and quiet

My family is from Ocracoke Island. I still have relatives that live there, it's really cool that people are taking an effort to preserve it's culture and heritage.

Ocracoke is its own little world, went there during the summers growing up. This place truly has a piece of my heart.

Sounds close to West Country English. Don't lose it !

The Hoi Toider dialect isn't restricted to Ocracoke. You can find pockets of it all along the Carolina coastline.

Being from the UK I can definitely hear irish and almost Bristolian farmer-like accent mixed in with the strong drawl of the south. Really interesting to listen to

This sounds exactly like West Country in england

My dad is good friends with one of those gentlemen. They were at East Carolina University. Love that I don't have a hard time understanding them or heavy accents from the UK.

My grandmother talked like this. I loved it. My father's accent faded probably as he was in the service and abroad. My aunt and her children talk with a similar accent but slightly faded. I remember listening to family stories by a relative in outer banks area and I loved it. Great stories told in a old world way.❤

"I live on the coast of NC and never heard this" No, you live in Raleigh and vacation at the beach, but only visit chain restaurants and boutique stores that sell overpriced beach shells...

I live there, it’s like a whole different language.

0:22 what the actual hell. All I heard was moonshine and something about a fish. They sound like country Australian people lol

im english and it sounds south west england.

Poor story and reporting when we couldn’t hear them speak the dialect for hardly any of the film

I’m was born and raised on the coast of Nc, and have heard people with a slight bit of this. This is the thickest scenes I’ve ever heard! It’s amazing!

Yes, this dialect, while indeed on the decline, is MUCH more widespread than Ocracoke Island. I hear at least influences of it up into Beaufort County near me, and anyone from Down East Carteret County who's a native has the almost identical dialect... Some of the vowel shifts are also noticeable in the Albemarle Sound area even.

I’m a fisherman from Cornwall on the south west coast of England. Your dialect sounds like ours! Cornwall is famous for fishermen and pirates. Please keep it alive. It’s sad to see this go. Like here in Cornwall due to filthy EU catch quotas we can’t survive on a catch anymore so have to break the law to survive. Rich folk and TV idiots from outside buying up houses in the villages for summer holiday homes, pushing up the prices and forcing us out of our ancestral homes. Sometimes their houses catch fire

I’m from Salter Path, another community that speaks the exact same dialect, shares the same familial lines, and works the same professions... fishermen and carpenters. Here’s what I have to say: Chhh, you’ll feckin keel one thinkin there’s only 150 of us who tawlk dis weigh. Keel one

Living in NC you hear so many different accents. This, southern, classic all american, trans-atlantic...its really cool ngl

So basically it’s an island filled with Boomhauer. Neat where do i sign up?

It sounds like the southwest accent of England, where I'm from.

1:24 "Ocracoke is an island that has always lived around the water." Did he really just say that?!!

My wife and I vacationed in Ocracoke about 25 years ago. Everyone we ran into then talked like this. It was delightful, like being in the Lord of the Rings or on Orkney Island. It is its own unique little world. We used to eat lunch at this place that had fresh seafood constantly brought in right off the fishing boats. Tell them what you wanted and they'd fried it up to perfection. Even the locals used to pack this place out. They served delicious Yaupon iced sweet tea which is from the yaupon holly plant and is the only caffeine source native to North America. It is getting more popular now but back then I'd never head of it before. They grew it wild on the island and sold it to the tourists. What a magical place like nowhere else. It is a shame all that character is dying out. If I were the big wigs there, I'd try to encourage people from the UK and Ireland tired of city life moving on there with their families to infuse some new genertions of "Hoi Toiders." I'd also encourage Dingbatters to learn how to talk right and embrace the local culture more. Ocracoke is the real treasure of Blackbeard, hidden in plain sight. Please don't let it slip away without a fight.

North Carolina is the best state in the country. The most beautiful place with rolling hills in the north, mountains to the west, and beautiful beaches to the east. proud to call it my home.

There is an island in Maryland where they sound the same! Smith Island! They say Mommocked, they say "I feel like I've been pulled through a keyhole". There should be a meetup!

What you are hearing is essentially the original American accent. It should be preserved and protected

Everyone, there is more than just 150 left. Look up the town of “Atlantic” North Carolina (not Atlantic beach).

So funny! I am a boat Captain from Carteret and have moved to Florida. I am not aware that I "might" have something other than a basic southern drawl going on when dealing with boat rental or yacht charter clients. Apparently, I do because they ask "Are you from Australia?" "HUH?"

Folks Down East NC (Harkers Island area) have the same brogue. Ain't I been mommicked and mailed this day of our Lord!!!

As a teen living in Michigan I think this dialect sounds quite pleasant! I absolutely would love to learn it.

This channel was so amazing, I'm genuinely sad it's no longer active. Sad they had to close, they were truly awesome media. Hopefully one day they can be revived.

It’s similar to the Tangier Island, VA dialect

This is how my grandpa from North Carolina sounds

My sister married a man from that area many many years ago. My nieces and nephews all have the old English brogue . . Love the accent!

There are still plenty of people that have this accent. I'm from Carteret County, NC. There are so many people from Down East. It may disappear, but I hear this accent every day.

somebody save this dialect! write it down in IPA and publish a dialect guide

Oh how homesick this makes me!!! I’m from out along the Pamlico Sound. I hear my home folks calling throughout the video. Harker’s was so quaint and beautiful last time I saw it. Would love to take a trip back out!

North Carolina is seriously one of the coolest states ever!!! This is one of the most amazing areas in NC. Delicious food, awesome people, beautiful scenery with wild horses on the beaches.

I hope someone went out there way to record this dialect into dictionaries, grammars, and IPA pronunciations to preserve it.

The Lumbee dialect in NC is also worth checking out.

That they live on a small part of this island, is not exactly true...."Hoi Toiders" live as far south as Harkers Island and Beaufort, NC

I've been to Ocracoke and other parts of the Outer Banks - grew up in NC - but never heard of this dialect before, or the special culture that barely remains. So enamored. Thanks for making this video : )

This YT page is great to have around. Sucks they stopped making vids.

I grew up on Topsail Island, just barely south of the outer banks, and though my accent is a little bit different, we use many of the same words. Mommick, pizer, wallerin, dingbatter, scud...my great grandfather sounded more like these gentleman than I do, and I understand what they're saying perfectly. Everywhere I go people ask me where I'm from, even other Southerners, because we people from the marshes of NC have a distinct, thick accent as well. Probably a derivative of Outer Banks dialects.

What I think is really cool is that in those some odd years when the dialect actually does die out, this video will be here to commemorate it. The wonders of modern technology!

Love It! Sounds Great!

this is a beautiful place! would love to spend a couple cozy days there!

I went to Oakracoke for a school fieldtrip (I'm from Charlotte) and I met some people with this dialect.

Wow, thanks for the recommendations. I’ve e always been fascinated by the French dialects (cajuns) in Louisiana, but this one's cool as well.

Sometimes it’s sadden me to think every single day there’s something somewhere goes extinct.

I love little stories like that!

It's a bit like Newfoundland or Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. They all must be related maybe remnants of English (UK) in isolated areas from when the US and Canada were colonized.

Fascinating! I’ve been in NC 18 years and had no idea about this.

Tangier Island Virginia: "Hold my beer"

I've lived in NC almost my entire life. I grew up on the coast just North of Wilmington. Which by the way, at the time, had it's own local dialect albeit not at as differentiated as Ocracoke. Back when I was 16 (30+ years ago), I got my first truck. That summer, my friends and I set off on a surf adventure to the Outer Banks. I'd heard of the dialect there and had been warned that 1) we wouldn't be able to understand any of the locals and 2) we would not be welcome if we stayed overnight. I'm happy to say, that was not the case. One of the best trips of my life. At this point, I have been incredibly fortunate to travel many places around the world. Those early on experiences of different cultures, right there in my back yard, taught me great lessons that have paid off well. The best advice I can give to enjoying such places, is listen more than you talk. You have two ears and one mouth for a reason. Wishing you all safe travels and great adventures.

People still dont understand me after 20 years gone

I’m English-South African and I understood everything what he said

We started vacationing on Ocracoke in '82, bought a family vacation home there in the mid '90's and recently sold it and we were there several weeks every year. I never did get the local dialect down but it's entertaining to hear. Nice people, beautiful place.

Lived on ocracoke for 2 summers & one of my favorite coworkers spoke in this dialect, super cool dude ! So sad it’s disappearing.

If you think "hoi toiders" only exist on Ocrakoke or the outer banks then you need to visit the Varnamtown shrimping community near Holden Beach NC. My father, who grew up around Varnamtown also found hoi toiders in fishing villages when visiting Nova Scotia.

I'm from central NC and notice that people along the Pamlico sound and eastern part of the state pronounce O's with a strong accent. It's not full brogue but a little bit of that dialect remains in place.

We have traveled and stayed on the island many times truly a different kind of place with wonderful folks.

I dated a man from NC and he didn't really speak like this, but he knew those who did. He was such a character lmao

Well when that sand bar is no more, they'll fit in perfectly and sound identical with the entire east coast of Canada

All Language is dynamic, it isn't static. Even the English we use today isn't the same we used a few generations ago.

I live about 20-30 miles from Ocracoke and I’ve never seen this until now and it’s lovely

I visit ocracoke whenever I can (all the way from Nashville originally from NC.) my boyfriend and I headed that way the 3rd week of July and had the pleasure of having a chat with Chester and looking around the antique shop he runs out of his home. He was such a cool guy and had endless stories for us. If you’re ever there and stumble into his shop, ask him about his private Blackbeard collection!

People from down east, harkers island or salter path sound like this too.

As someone who is absolutely in love with this island and has been there countless times, I highly recommend visiting. It's a small town where everyone knows each other, everything basically closes at around 9-10, and it's one of those places where you can go out and skate late at night and just enjoy the village, unbound by worry or stress. Also, Howard's Pub is the greatest restaurant. I recommend the EVERYTHING.

This is really cool. I lived in NC for a years and never knew about this.

I've lived in NC all my life and never heard of this dialect! Went to okracoke on vacation a few summers ago...beautiful islands, I loved Portsmouth island best💖

I live on the outskirts of the OBX in Jacksonville, NC. I have a southern belle accent. The Ocracoke accent is great if you ever get a chance to sit & listen to then.

This vid needs some subtitles. Yet still great!

I’m from a bit more inland NC, and it was in college that I met a frat brothers family. When went camping and fishing at Ocracoke, his family was there and they all had spoke that way from serious brogue to a lightened version

Reminds me of my poppop

I understood everything, and I'm Canadian. Sounds pretty cool to me.

Sound like guy from King Of The Kill TV show.

Where’s my 919 gang at

Love OBX! Can't wait to go back