CORONA Scottish newscast about the virus, with translation.
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Plain Jane
Just Plain Jane
Loved this! 
HOOSE - sounds like the hoitoiders on the outer banks of NC...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7MvtQp2-UA
The Disappearing American Dialect of North Carolina
RR 03:00
"Hoi Toider," aka Ocracoke Brogue, is a dialect of American English spoken only on remote islands in North Carolina's Outer Banks. The unique accent and vocabulary developed over hundreds of years as a result of the area's isolation. Visitors often mistake the accent as foreign, but with origins dating back to the 1600s, Ocracoke Brogue is about American as it gets.
The Disappearing American Dialect of North Carolina
RR 03:00
"Hoi Toider," aka Ocracoke Brogue, is a dialect of American English spoken only on remote islands in North Carolina's Outer Banks. The unique accent and vocabulary developed over hundreds of years as a result of the area's isolation. Visitors often mistake the accent as foreign, but with origins dating back to the 1600s, Ocracoke Brogue is about American as it gets.
Isn't that where "Gullah" is spoken also?
All4liberty
Senior Member
Ha ha. That took a moment before I knew she was speaking some kind of English.
Gullah is further south, in the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Gullah is a black dialect with roots in various African languages IIRC.
The hoitoiders are speaking remnants of Elizabethan English - much like my old neighbors, the Lumbee.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cVnhWSMLn4
Lumbee English: Part 1
RT 06:07
The hoitoiders are speaking remnants of Elizabethan English - much like my old neighbors, the Lumbee.
Lumbee English: Part 1
RT 06:07
Michiana MaJo
Deceased
My grandparents brought my young father when they immigrated from Scotland. I only got to meet them a couple of times as a teenager, and I could barely understand their dialect.
Terriannie
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Cool! I love these stories!!
When I married my Cajun descent husband and moved to Louisiana, I had a VERY hard time understanding some of his relatives. Good people though. I just wanted to know what they were saying when they switched from English to French and/or a combination of both.
Unfortunately, DH and his siblings/cousins never learned much French because his parents and that generation used their Cajun as an advantage to talk about scandalous gossip without "little ears" understanding. His mother regretted it though because it's dying out unless you live in a swamp. (I think DH is only sad because he missed out on all that juicy gossip.
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When I married my Cajun descent husband and moved to Louisiana, I had a VERY hard time understanding some of his relatives. Good people though. I just wanted to know what they were saying when they switched from English to French and/or a combination of both.
Unfortunately, DH and his siblings/cousins never learned much French because his parents and that generation used their Cajun as an advantage to talk about scandalous gossip without "little ears" understanding. His mother regretted it though because it's dying out unless you live in a swamp. (I think DH is only sad because he missed out on all that juicy gossip.
)
A wee bit of a boat race,
Irish Sailing Commentary (RT 3:27)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjwRvr0LPrA
Irish Sailing Commentary (RT 3:27)
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Those Lumbee look like they are a real good chunk Native American.
Robeson Co., NC is the most heavily Native American populated county east of the Mississippi as far as I know. Essentially Lumbee are the descendants of the scattered survivors of who knows how many tribes who lost 90-95% of their numbers to disease when the first Europeans arrived.
Lumbee are state recognized but not federally recognized, they had no tribal language and many were living and farming much like the whites who 'found' them. The history that we know is fascinating, but there is much more we do not know.
Robeson Co., NC is the most heavily Native American populated county east of the Mississippi as far as I know. Essentially Lumbee are the descendants of the scattered survivors of who knows how many tribes who lost 90-95% of their numbers to disease when the first Europeans arrived.
Lumbee are state recognized but not federally recognized, they had no tribal language and many were living and farming much like the whites who 'found' them. The history that we know is fascinating, but there is much more we do not know.