Through linguistic detective work, scholars have revived the sound of Elizabethan English, revealing striking differences from how Shakespeare is usually performed today.

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) - The notion that Ozark Mountain residents spoke a form of Elizabethan English was good for tourism in the early 20th century, but it was a bit of an exaggeration, said Susan ...

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English recently became the US's official language. But on a tiny island, residents still speak the country's most English version of English, and many Americans don't understand it.

Elizabethan exactness of thinking is easily discernible in upland speech. They talk of cow-brutes, ham-meat, lard-cracklin’s, of tooth-dent, churchhouses, biscuit-bread, and rifle-guns.

Smith Island and Tangier Island natives have a distinctive accent and dialect. Popular belief holds their speech is directly descended from Elizabethan English, the language of Shakespeare.

Notre Dame history professor Mark Noll rightly maintains that the King James Version of the Bible "anchored the culture" of English speakers for more than three centuries ("The American Biblical ...

English recently became the US's official language. But on a tiny island, residents still speak the country's most English version of English, and many Americans don't understand it.