Have you heard of Hoi Toider? Well, tune in your ears, as this dwindling Carolinian brogue (or dialect) may be on the brink of extinction. Here's the scoop, Dingbatters, ahem, tourists or outsiders: ...
The island of Ocracoke in North Carolina is known for its distinct "Hoi Toider" brogue (Credit: Alamy) Native Americans, English sailors and pirates all came together on Ocracoke Island in North ...
SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) - The notion that Ozark Mountain residents spoke a form of Elizabethan English was good for tourism in the early 20th century, but it was a bit of an exaggeration, said Susan ...
“1. Shakspere is in many passages an unintelligible author to those who read him without a knowledge of the wordforms and word-meanings, the pronunciation, the syntax, and the idioms of Elizabethan ...
WE know a land of Elizabethan ways — a country of Spenserian speech, Shakespearean people, and of cavaliers and curtsies. It is a land of high hopes and mystic allegiances, where one may stroll ...
Lauren Guest stood high above the crowd waiting to enter the New Jersey Renaissance Faire on May 31. She was communicating with them, though her lips moved soundlessly. Guest is an American Sign ...
IrishCentral Contributor Éamon Ó Caoineachán on the untold story of Elizabethan espionage during the Tudor conquest of ...
A nearly 500-year-old Elizabethan ship was recently excavated by marine archaeologists from the bottom of a quarry lake in southern England, some 1,000 feet (300 meters) from the shore of Kent County, ...
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 ...