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.

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As you stroll up to the mighty Basilica de Candelaria on Tenerife’s north-west coast, you’ll be under the watchful eye of ...