The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 4, Episode 07: Wait. Where did YOU come from?

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Here are links to the sources and resources we used while researching this episode.

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Haley: American places that still speak British accents…from the 16 and 1700s

• The tiny US island with a British accent: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180206-the-tiny-us-island-with-a-british-accent 
• A Life Less Ordinary– Voices of Tangier Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upKqzxuJ5L4 
• North Carolin: The Carolina Brogue: Outer Banks Vocabulary: https://youtu.be/jgi9wYsR5fo 
• Ocracoke Brogue for Dingbatters: https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/currents/2018/05/ocracoke-brogue-for-dingbatters/ 
• Meet the Americans Who Speak with Elizabethan English Accents: An Introduction to the “Hoi Toiders” from Ocracoke, North Carolina: https://www.openculture.com/2019/12/the-americans-who-still-speak-with-regional-british-english-accents.html 
• Hoi Toiders: https://www.ncpedia.org/hoi-toiders 
• The Island of the Time Before: https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/the-island-of-the-time-before/ 
• Neither modern nor Shakespearean, Smith Island’s English is unique: https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2018/09/24/smith-island-unique-english/1346734002/ 
• Smith Island Accent: https://youtu.be/J2-O-cdA9dU
• When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29761/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents 

Natali: Transatlantic Accent

• Wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
• Let Them Talk Video “Learn the Transatlantic Accent”  https://youtu.be/IL2MJ8rQ12E
• Atla article https://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/the-trans-atlantic-accent/
• Collider article https://collider.com/katharine-hepburn-mid-atlantic-accent/
• Atlas obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-fake-british-accent-took-old-hollywood-by-storm
• The Atlantic Article  https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-katharine-hepburns-fake-accent/278505/
• Acadamia Edu paper https://www.academia.edu/34528944/The_history_and_the_use_of_the_transatlantic_accent_in_Hollywood
• This Was a Thing Podcast-  “Transatlantic Accent; Or, What Is That Old Timey Movie Voice https://www.audible.com/pd/Transatlantic-Accents-Or-What-Is-That-Old-Timey-Movie-Voice-Podcast/B09VFR89JX?clientContext=134-5243912-4304328&ds_rl=1261256&gclid=Cj0KCQjw8NilBhDOARIsAHzpbLD_R-X2Mragjz1izjkCKCHUpcoZnX_4zDqGsYHd3EYLTWxDwsy2n5AaAmhOEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds&loginAttempt=true&noChallengeShown=true&source_code=GO1GB547041122911E
• Henry Sweet’s Handbook of Phonetics https://archive.org/details/ahandbookphonet00sweegoog/page/n4/mode/2up
• Edith Skinner’s Speak with Distinction https://archive.org/details/speak-with-distinction-skinner-edith