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As English as you can get in America... and probably around the world

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As English as you can get in America... and probably around the world

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As English as you can get in America… and probably around the world
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english
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A 1997 documentary about the dialect, The Ocracoke Brogue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uuzr_gl4Oo

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