Charleston, SC, dialect

[Wilson Gray]

Yes, I've heard about that dialect, too, Doug. I couldn't think of
where it was located, but I was pretty sure that it wasn't very close
to Charleston.

-Wilson

On 11/8/06, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
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> >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.
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> 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 ....
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> -- Doug Wilson
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