Tangier Island: Place, People, and TalkThis book is an account of the island's inhabitants from their beginnings in the late 1700s to their portrayal as an isolated community under siege, and a description of the way they talk. Talk has the prior claim, but place and people deserve and get equal notice because talk could not be fully understood without an appreciation of the inhabitants' history and as well as social and working lives. |
Contents
| 9 | |
Tangier Chronology | 21 |
Who Were They | 31 |
Tangier Beginnings and Development | 51 |
Life and Family | 81 |
Work | 103 |
Worship | 129 |
Order and Government Play | 152 |
Over the Left Talk or Talking Backwards | 189 |
Words Names and Expressions | 196 |
Grammatical Features and Correctness | 243 |
Tangier Talk Relationships and Future | 252 |
Notes | 271 |
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| 285 | |
Overview | 169 |
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Common terms and phrases
Accomack Accomack County American English Atlantic Barcat become blue crab boat Bogue-Core Sound boys British bugeye called Camp Meeting Canaan catch century Chesapeake Bay clam coastal course crab pot crabbers Crisfield dialect dredge earlier early Eastern Shore England fish fisheries Guy Lowman harbor hear heard indentured servants isolated Jander Job's Cove Joshua Thomas known land language later lives Main Ridge mainland Maryland matter means menhaden mention Methodist Church nickname Norfolk North Carolina Ocracoke Outer Banks oysters peelers perhaps population pronounced pronunciation regions relatively religious residents River sailing Salter Path seems sense settlement Shore of Virginia Smith Island social soft crabs speak Swain Memorial syllables talking backwards Tangier Island Tangier speech Tangiermen term things Tidewater tion trotline usage usually Virginian-Pilot vowel watermen West Ridge women words