What is High Tider?
The '''High Tider''' accent, also '''Hoi Toider''' for the pronunciation of the ''ai'' dipthong found in the dialect, is a variety of [[Southern American English]] spoken in the [[Outer Banks]] of [[South Carolina]] and [[North Carolina]]. The High Tider accent can also be called the '''Ocracoke Brogue'''. *Conversion of ''i'' to ''ee'', so that ''[[fish]]'' is pronounced as ''feesh'' and ''[[kitchen]]'' as ''keechen''. This also happens with ''e'' so that ''[[pen]]'' can be ''peen'' for example. *Dropping of certain consonants except ''r'', so ''[[cape]]'' is pronounced as ''cay'' *Rhoticity (no [[r-dropping]]) [[Category:American English]] {{US-stub}}