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)).
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