Dialect of Tidewater Community of Tangier Island, Virginia

Dialect of Tidewater Community of Tangier Island, Virginia in both Audio and text versions.

For the age of a young child until ten or twelve years old, until they start getting really mischievious, Tangier Island is a paradise for children, because there's no crime rate whatsoever round here, except for maybe a speeding ticket now and then...


Dialect of Tidewater Community of Tangier Island, Virginia (17 sec) (from The Story of English PBS series (Ep. 3)).

Another example of the Dialect:

...and Grandpa occasionally made very cutting remarks to any young person sitting silent, such as ‘Have you lost your tongue?’
...and one of his sons married a Miss Wheatley who owned property at Holkham.
...I think the beach is still a lovely place to play, with lots of, lots of space and, uh, beautiful surroundings.


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