Awesome and fascinating. I knew about the dialect of Smith Island, but this sounds thicker and more distinct than theirs. Here is a YouTube about the accent.
Wow...I can just about understand when just one of them is speaking, but when several of them are in a conversation, it really requires subtitles! The regular lower-shore accent is very similar, but much less thick. Many of those vowel pronunciations are really similar to ones my grandfather (born in Accomack County) used. I've just appended a bunch more to this post...I found a nest of Crocketts and Tylers on the tree that I almost forgot about, and that link is much more solid than the West/Scarborough one, which is pretty certain but needs untangling. There was much marriage between cousins and more distant relations (with reoccurring surnames), it seems, which makes it difficult to establish facts. *Back to REAL work*
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I've just appended a bunch more to this post...I found a nest of Crocketts and Tylers on the tree that I almost forgot about, and that link is much more solid than the West/Scarborough one, which is pretty certain but needs untangling. There was much marriage between cousins and more distant relations (with reoccurring surnames), it seems, which makes it difficult to establish facts.
*Back to REAL work*
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