Show People on North Carolinas Carolina's Banks Talk in Lingo of Queen Elizabeth who visit North Carolinas Carolina's Carolinas Carolina's Carolinas Carolina's Caro Caro- linas lina's primitive and romantic Outer Banks meet many strange sights and sounds not the least of which is the native dialect spoken by the bankers who Inhabit the narrow rope of land stretching thread-like thread from Norfolk Va to Wilmington N N. NC C. C The dialect is a strange mixture of native dialect and Elizabethan English spoken on Roanoke island Ocracoke and other small all fishing villages villages vil vII lages along the banks and outsiders who sometimes stumble Into the midst of this isolated colony are likely to be amazed by the language If the outlander asks a native for Information about the fishing thereabouts thereabouts there there- thereabouts he may be told that a to go fishing is at Because many other words and phrases are so similar in texture and construction to the phraseology of Queen Elizabeths Elizabeth's day historians and philologists believe there is a distinct although unexplained connection connection con can between the two Some contend earliest settlers brought their native English speech to the Carolina shores during the days of Queen Elizabeth and that this has haa been preserved through I generation after generation of natives na nl fives tives who live on the banks seldom sel sl dour dom if it ever getting very far aw away y from their native hearth At Rodanthe they still sing the of old d English songs and ballads that were wore e popular in inthe the days of Ben Den Jonson n and Shakespeare The ghosts ghost o of f Spencer and Chaucer of R and Piers the Plowman are conjured curs con up when one hears an abl able e and affable man spoken of as b being being be e ing witted and A plump good looking good looking girl Is II a may The old wor word d leech means to coax or flatter and when a 8 man fails falls to keep a an engagement or do his part he has s scooped you When he dies he has gone to le leward leeward lee e ward and if ii he goes to the country country country coun try he is visiting the mainland d across the bay Persons visiting the banks are e told of the V where the of old d wrecks lie scattered along the shore of f hens that have nestles or men rs who are fitten for certain services cervices a because their mother wit makes s them mind able A flask of whisky whisky whis ky will wID contain not a pint but a point and the vine lne from which h wine is 11 made is la the wine Ail id no not lvin t l the v vin in |