Charleston, SC, dialect

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>Except for their clearly
>pronouncing "'night" as "noyt," there was nothing else of interest in
>the women's speech. They didn't even sound particularly Southern.

I don't know much about this, but there is supposedly such a shift in the
Outer Banks: some folks there are called "hoi toiders" ("high tiders")
sometimes.

That's North Carolina, though, I guess ....

-- Doug Wilson


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