OutAtSea09 t1_j9x2gzl wrote
Reply to comment by Logical_Crab_4594 in TIL residents of Tangier Island, 12 miles off the coast of Virginia, have remained so isolated they still speak a dialect similar to the original colonists from the 1700s by emily_9511
Read a book last year on this very topic, called Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. Highly recommend!
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/chesapeake-requiem-earl-swift?variant=32207999696930
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