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A ground-breaking book on Ocracoke accents gets a follow-up

Jun 12, 202550 min
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Episode description

Thousands of soccer fans gathered in Chapel Hill this week to see Mexico playTurkey. It was an exciting match-up, but there was also concern about events like this with a backdrop of immigration raids. 

Twenty years after a groundbreaking book on the Ocracoke Brogue accent, the authors worked with a fourth-generation Ocracoke resident to take an even deeper dive into the culture and evolution of the "Ocracoke Brogue."

Guests

Aaron Sanchez-Guerra, Race, Class & Communities Reporter, WUNC

Jeffrey Reaser, English professor at North Carolina State University,  

Walt Wolfram, William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of English at N.C. State.

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