As many visitors to Ocracoke will attest, the island's vibrant dialect is one of its most distinctive cultural features. In Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Walt W

Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue

Are you considered a “dingbatter,” or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks? Have you ever noticed a picture in your house hanging a little “sigogglin,

Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess the use and meaning of language in the South, a region rich in dialects and variants, this comp

In the 1980s, The Nature Conservancy began work on the fast-growing Outer Banks by protecting Nags Head Woods. One of the last intact maritime forests on the Ea