The locally produced "Hoi Toider" documentary, The Carolina Brogue, is getting some serious airplay on UNC television this month. Read about the film and get information on air times in our review from earlier this week.
Dingbatter Alert: Hoi Toiders on the telly
Submitted by brookecain on 04/01/2009 - 13:15 The Carolina Brogue, April 2 at 10pm, UNC-TV
"The Carolina Brogue" is a fascinating peek into the thick, lyrical dialect of the 'Hoi Toiders' of our Outer Banks.
Filmed and directed by local documentary filmmaker Neal Hutcheson and produced by renowned NCSU linguist Walt Wolfram, "The Carolina Brogue"
will make you a little jealous to be lacking that utterly unique English/Scots-Irish/Eastern North Carolina lilting speech yourself (which actually pretty often sounds almost Australian).
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