Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 01:24:32 -0400

From: "Peter L. Patrick" PPATRICK[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GUVAX.ACC.GEORGETOWN.EDU

Subject: brogue sighted



"Brogue" is used by Ocockers to describe the dialect spoken on

Ocracoke and nearby Outer Banks isles. Thanks to the efforts of Walt

Wolfram et al in researching and publicizing it, I even have a T-shirt

to prove it. There is certainly Irish influence there. I have a few

times heard "brogue" used by Jamaicans to describe the use of Jamaican

Creole, but it's not one of the top ten terms-- again, lots of Irish

(and Scots) from Cromwell's time on, but I wouldn't guess as to date

or pathway. For what it's worth, the Jamaicans have been countryfolk

and not educated types.

--peter patrick