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The Disappearing American Dialect of North Carolina
Great Big Story
A short Great Big Story piece on the Ocracoke Brogue, or Hoi Toider dialect, spoken on North Carolina's Outer Banks, which developed through centuries of isolation and traces back to the 1600s.
Linked as an audio example of the Ocracoke accent in threads about American dialects.
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