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  • The US Island That Speaks Elizabethan English

    03/11/2025 2:30:37 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 85 replies
    BBC ^ | Brian Carlton
    Native Americans, English sailors and pirates all came together on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina to create the only American dialect that is not identified as American. I'd never been called a "dingbatter" until I went to Ocracoke, North Carolina for the first time. I've spent a good part of my life in the state, but I'm still learning how to speak the Hoi Toider brogue. The people here just have their own way of speaking: it's like someone took Elizabethan English, sprinkled in some Irish tones and 1700s Scottish accents, then mixed it all up with pirate slang. But...
  • Several injured in fireworks truck explosion on Ocracoke Island, N.C.

    07/04/2009 8:52:32 AM PDT · by csvset · 18 replies · 1,823+ views
    Pilotonline ^ | 4 july 2009 | Kathy Adams
    OCRACOKE, N.C. A fireworks truck exploded this morning on Ocracoke Island, N.C., injuring five to seven people, a dispatcher with the Hyde County Sheriff’s Office said. The explosion occurred at about 9 a.m., he said. Paramedics are transporting the injured people to the hospital for treatment. No additional information was immediately available.