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This tiny North Carolina island is last place in America where people talk like actual pirates (video)

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 11, 2025
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Aerial view of Ocracoke Lighthouse on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina (Chansak Joe/shutterstock.com)

Ocracoke is a tiny North Carolina island. The residents speak a dialect that blends Elizabethan English, Irish tones, Scottish accents, and pirate slang. Other Americans often can't understand it.

The island's 676 residents developed their own way of speak…

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