Joe Republic
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« on: October 03, 2012, 12:58:47 PM » |
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Ocracoke Island, North Carolina.
I'd been told already that the local dialect is close to the English spoken by the original Elizabethan settlers, and thus was something of a linguistic time capsule. Unfortunately it's already fading away as more tourists visit and settle there, and the remoteness is being lost. Luckily however, I was able to meet a lady working at the ferry terminal who was born and raised on the island. And yes, it was just about the strangest English accent I had ever heard.
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