hoi toider
Dialect
- Meaning
- Outer Banks NC: the Ocracoke brogue dialect itself.
- Type
- Dialect Word
- Used in
- North Carolina
What does “hoi toider” mean
The name for the distinctive English dialect spoken on the Outer Banks and certain coastal North Carolina communities. Speakers pronounce 'high tide' as 'hoi toide', preserving 17th-century English vowels brought by early settlers from southwest England and Ireland.
Where it's used
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