A ground-breaking book on Ocracoke accents gets a follow-up
Jun 12, 2025•50 min
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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