The Tangier Island Accent | American Tongues
People Like Us - The CNAM Channel · Documentary · 2 min · 2008 · YouTube title: The odd accent of Tangier VA - American Tongues episode #3
Why it's here
HN uses it as the standard audio example of the Tangier accent in discussions of archaic or colonial-era English.
What it covers
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.