Charleston, SC, dialect

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:01 PM -0500 11/8/06, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>>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 ....
>
Yes, specifically Okracoke I., as investigated and described by Walt
Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes.  The "hoi toider" is a
shibboleth for the locals there.

LH

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