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Imho, the Tangier accent is a lot more eclectic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E&t=38s&pp=2AEmkAIB https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E&t=38s&pp

by ethbr1 2y ago

Imho, the Tangier accent is a lot more eclectic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E&t=38s&pp=2AEmkAIB https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E&t=38s&pp=2AEmkAIB Barrier islands from Maryland to Georgia are linguistically fascinating. (As someone who spent a lot of time around them as a kid)

tetris11 2y ago
These just sound like lost british people with a slight american twang
- ethbr1 2y ago
  A few generations removed, but basically. At the risk of crushing the website, American regional and enclave accents are a fascinating rabbit hole to go down: https://aschmann.net/AmEng/#SmallMapUnitedStates https://aschmann.net/AmEng/#SmallMapUnitedStates
- OJFord 2y ago
  Or American students we've taken on a pub crawl and taught well.
wyclif 2y ago
I'm a former land surveyor (now DevOps guy) who spent a lot of summers during childhood on the eastern shore of Maryland, where we have relatives. I also did a lot of land surveys in the DelMarVa peninsula near the eastern shore of Virginia, as well as a lot of sonar work from boats on the Chesapeake Bay. And when I was a teen we used to sail boats out of Deal Island, MD and we'd often dock the boat on Smith Island, Tangier Island, and Ocracoke Island. Anyway, starting as a teen I'd often hear these stories that there were "lost islands" on the Chesapeake Bay where the locals spoke "Elizabethan English." I suppose that might be the closest thing the dialect resembles, but I doubt it's much like what authentic Elizabethan English was. It's more like a mix of Old English, colonial-era American English, Scottish, and Irish with some old American Indian words mixed in. Basically, the guys who started "Talk Like a Pirate Day" should visit these islands to learn the dialect. And of course a lot of times we'd come back from those trips with a Smith Island Cake for Mom. A couple of years ago there were some guys from the power company in my backyard up in the Philly metro area cutting down tree limbs to make room for the electrical cables. They were up on a cherry picker and I went out in my backyard and I overheard them talking, and I recognized the accent in a second. I said, "Hey, are you guys from Salisbury?" They were very surprised and said "Princess Anne, how did you know?" and I said "I know a Somerset County accent anywhere" because it's how my relatives spoke.
cjrp 2y ago
There's almost a brummy (Birmingham) twang to it, interesting

by ethbr1 2y ago

tetris11 2y ago

These just sound like lost british people with a slight american twang

ethbr1 2y ago
A few generations removed, but basically. At the risk of crushing the website, American regional and enclave accents are a fascinating rabbit hole to go down: https://aschmann.net/AmEng/#SmallMapUnitedStates https://aschmann.net/AmEng/#SmallMapUnitedStates
OJFord 2y ago
Or American students we've taken on a pub crawl and taught well.

wyclif 2y ago

I'm a former land surveyor (now DevOps guy) who spent a lot of summers during childhood on the eastern shore of Maryland, where we have relatives. I also did a lot of land surveys in the DelMarVa peninsula near the eastern shore of Virginia, as well as a lot of sonar work from boats on the Chesapeake Bay. And when I was a teen we used to sail boats out of Deal Island, MD and we'd often dock the boat on Smith Island, Tangier Island, and Ocracoke Island. Anyway, starting as a teen I'd often hear these stories that there were "lost islands" on the Chesapeake Bay where the locals spoke "Elizabethan English." I suppose that might be the closest thing the dialect resembles, but I doubt it's much like what authentic Elizabethan English was. It's more like a mix of Old English, colonial-era American English, Scottish, and Irish with some old American Indian words mixed in. Basically, the guys who started "Talk Like a Pirate Day" should visit these islands to learn the dialect. And of course a lot of times we'd come back from those trips with a Smith Island Cake for Mom. A couple of years ago there were some guys from the power company in my backyard up in the Philly metro area cutting down tree limbs to make room for the electrical cables. They were up on a cherry picker and I went out in my backyard and I overheard them talking, and I recognized the accent in a second. I said, "Hey, are you guys from Salisbury?" They were very surprised and said "Princess Anne, how did you know?" and I said "I know a Somerset County accent anywhere" because it's how my relatives spoke.

cjrp 2y ago

There's almost a brummy (Birmingham) twang to it, interesting