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The Ocracoke Brogue: North Carolina's Disappearing Dialect

Great Big Story · Documentary · 3 min · 2016 · YouTube title: The Disappearing American Dialect of North Carolina
Why it's here

Linked as an audio example of the Ocracoke accent in threads about American dialects.

What it covers

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.