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 ...

THE publishers of the new “Elizabethan Shakspere ” give three reasons for its inception: — “1. Shakspere is in many passages an unintelligible author to those who read him without a knowledge of the ...

Smith Island and Tangier Island natives have a distinctive accent and dialect. Popular belief holds their speech is directly descended from Elizabethan English, the language of Shakespeare. Could this ...

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 ...

SPRINGDALE — 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 Young, outreach ...