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Welcome to another mini podcast from Away With Words. I'm Martha Barnett.

Time for another linguistic mystery. In what part of the country would you be likely to hear older folks using the following phrases?

He sure was mama can his little brother. And why those kids used to play me honky every afternoon and

Oh, I was quamished in the stomach.

Give up.

Well, you're most likely to hear the words mamican, me honky, and quamished in a place called

Okra Coke. It's just off the North Carolina coast, one of the Outer Banks barrier islands.

Settled by the British in the early 1700s,

Okor Koch's small relatively isolated community

developed its own distinctive dialect.

One of the dialect's most striking features is its pronunciation.

In the so-called Okracoke Brogue, the expression High Tide comes out more like Hoi Toide. On the island you'll also hear some unusual words.

Mamak, M-O-M-M-M-U-C-K, means to harass or bother.

Quamish, that's Q-U-A-M-I-S-H, means queasy.

And old-timers on Okrakoke remember playing the island's special version of Hide and seek called me honky. You'll find more

examples of this distinctive dialect at our website that's wayward radio dot

o'r g and for a great introduction to the language of Oker Koch, check out a book by linguists

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