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The odd accent of Tangier VA - American Tongues episode #3
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A clip from the documentary American Tongues about the isolated Tangier Island, Virginia, whose dialect is among the most unusual in the US. It is often said to resemble speech from centuries ago.
HN uses it as the standard audio example of the Tangier accent in discussions of archaic or colonial-era English.
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