tangier

Languages aren’t static and the Tangier dialect has changed a lot because of its isolation.

This is something that even tourists are often aware of, because in Tangier the Anglican parish[1] is a popular tourist attraction.

Somewhat related was this article from ~2013 in TheAtavist [0] about Tangier Island in Virginia where they also still speak in an Elizabethan accent.

I took one from Tangier to Gibraltar, in the 1970s (Might even have been the 1960s).

I live in Maryland now and have visited Tangier Island and the English dialect spoken there is yet another interesting story.

Seems like a tangier Egg cream of NYC fame and lore.

And when I was a teen we used to sail boats out of Deal Island, MD and we'd often dock the boat on Smith Island, Tangier Island, and Ocracoke Island.

The relevant (unvalidated) theory is that Atlantis was an empire that covered north western Africa (Morocco, sharah, etc) - at least, and which had a port city around where Tangier is today, and a capital city at the richat structure (pre-younger dryas).

Each review says, "this is great, and you should also check out eric walker's tangier dream".

Another type of spamming: Search iTunes music store for "Eric Walker", then look at "Tangier Dream".

The original article doesn't debunk it, it states without giving a single citation that "claims about the accents of the Appalachian Mountains, the Outer Banks, the Tidewater region and Virginia's Tangier Island sounding like an uncorrupted Elizabethan-era English accent have been busted as myths by linguists." Most likely his source is a single linguist, Dr.

It’s like those city-guessing games where you progressively close in on a street scene in Łódź or Tangier.

Filmed as a movie adaption of a Camus-inspired poem in Wales, Wales as a fallback location after failing to reach Tangier.

Also, for what it's worth: > Some people have characterised Tangier’s way of speaking as ‘Elizabethan’ or ‘Restoration’ English, but that’s nonsense.