{"id":4227,"date":"2025-10-24T03:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english-bbc-global\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:46:44","slug":"the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english-bbc-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english-bbc-global\/","title":{"rendered":"The US island that speaks Elizabethan English | BBC Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lFvzPWiTCS4?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The story of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina is rich in tales of pirates, Native American fishing and English sailors, but one of its greatest legacies is a very unique dialect.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the island being isolated for centuries, their &#8220;Hoi Toider&#8221; brogue sounds more like it&#8217;s from South West England than the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Global: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbc_global?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #language #history<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lFvzPWiTCS4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina is rich in tales of pirates, Native American fishing and English sailors, but one of its greatest legacies is a very unique dialect. Due to the island being isolated for centuries, their &#8220;Hoi Toider&#8221; brogue sounds more like it&#8217;s from South West England than the United States. Subscribe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":4228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,17,21,1367,18],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-documentary","tag-explainers","tag-factual","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}