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26735
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Southerners, and more specifically, North Carolinians, have a fascination for calling their loved ones pet names taken from food or sweeteners. Yet, the South did not invent these sayings. For instance, “sweetheart” is seven centuries old, and “honey” is six.
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39920
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The setting in Shelia Turnage’s novels proves that facts from a writer’s life always find their way into his or her fiction. Tupelo’s Landing resembles the town where Turnage lives and any small town in the South. Evidence includes a list of lines quoted from her Dale and Mo mystery series.
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Greenville: Life in the East (NoCar F264 G8 G743), Vol. Issue , Fall 2015 , p50-52, 54
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27680
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The growing Latino community in the Triangle area and US has caused the market for Latin American music to grow over the past decade. This has highlighted the need to expand Spanish-speaking programming in the Triangle. Often, many Latin Americans have to travel great distances to attend concerts and events. Jorge Zuluaga and Juan Chavez recently created a production company called Raleigh Sonica to help produce a variety of programs that show diversity within the Spanish-speaking world and appeal to the Spanish-speaking community.
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19284
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During his introductory remarks to his keynote address to the 3rd annual Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming, Michael Parker discussed his love for the language of eastern North Carolina and provided some of his favorite examples.
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20238
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Following the American Revolution, defeated Loyalists fled to the remote corner of Abaco in The Bahamas. Since then, the descendants of those Loyalists have maintained a population that is racially, culturally, and politically distinct from the other twenty-nine populated islands that make up The Bahamas. The Abaco population more closely resembles isolated communities on Ocracoke and Harkers Island, where the population still speaks with a brogue, resembling the tongue spoken by the earliest Scot-Irish settlers.
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35857
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What made Ocracoke unique from many other NC towns was heard in an accent betraying the area’s English roots. As for what could be seen, they were reasonably priced accommodations for visitors and friendliness of people descended from the original dozen families.
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Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 8 Issue 4, May 1980, p43-45
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35941
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This collection of saying and phrases included those not exclusive to the area, such as frock. As for sayings and phrases perhaps not known outside of the Outer Banks, they included woine.
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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 1 Issue 3, Spring 1974, p41-43
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35927
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It’s been suggested the Outer Banks dialect was a remnant of Elizabethan age colonial residency. Another unique aspect of Banker speech was common words and phrases. Among the possibly known by other Coastal Plain residents: dingbattin’. Others possibly known by people outside of NC include grub. Others like peelin’ the green may be known only to natives.
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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Spring/Summer 1973, p40-43
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35931
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An aspect making a people unique are expressions and descriptions that reveal their perception. This collection represented nautical lifeways that defined cardinal cultural values of the area and served as a memory for values of generations past. Phrases perhaps unique to the Banks included atter-a-while and foine; ones more characteristic of time period included Hessian and sparkin’.
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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 1 Issue 2, Fall 1973, p41-43