Editing Ocracoke, North Carolina (section)

==Local dialect==
{{main|High Tider}}
Ocracoke Island and other parts of the [[Outer Banks]] historically have a distinct dialect of [[English language|English]], often referred to as a [[brogue (accent)|brogue]].<ref>{{Cite video | people = Neal Hutcheson, director | title = The Carolina Brogue | medium = television documentary | location = Ocracoke Island, North Carolina | date = 2009 | url = http://www.carolinabrogue.com | access-date = 2020-03-29 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170912152731/http://carolinabrogue.com/ | archive-date = 2017-09-12 | url-status = dead }}</ref> The dialect is known as the [[High Tider]] dialect, after the characteristic phrase "high tide" (often pronounced "hoi toide"<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Wolfram|Schilling-Estes|1997|pp=123}}</ref>). Due to the influx of tourists and greater contact with the mainland in recent years, however, the brogue has been increasingly influenced by outside dialects.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wolfram |first1=Walt |first2=Natalie |last2=Schilling-Estes | title = Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks |pages=117–136 |location =Chapel Hill |publisher=University of North Carolina Press | year = 1997 |isbn=0-8078-4626-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x8QL6V7lDiIC&pg=117 }}</ref>