Record #:

20186

Author(s):

Weslager, C.A.

Abstract:

Until recently, the fishing community of Ocracoke Island had little direct contact with the outside world. The present population speaks a language unlike anything else heard in Virginia or the Carolinas, maintaining early English influence in idioms and place names.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 31 Issue 1, Jan 1954, p41-49, f

Subject(s):

Ocracoke Island--Social life and customs; Idioms