"CBS This Morning" correspondent Mo Rocca visited North Carolina recently to film a report on homogenizing American accents. And no report on American accents is complete without a chat with N.C. State professor Walt Wolfram about the hoi toiders of Ocracoke. Wolfram, a William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor, has been studying dialects for almost than 50 years and has been at N.C. State for the past 20.

"Studying dialects in North Carolina is like dying and coming to dialect heaven," Wolfram told Rocca. "It's incredible. There's no state that has a richer tradition."

Video of Rocca's report is below and includes "CBS This Morning" host and North Carolina native Charlie Rose talking about this own accent.

The Carolina Brogue, April 2 at 10pm, UNC-TV

"The Carolina Brogue" is a fascinating peek into the thick, lyrical dialect of the 'Hoi Toiders' of our Outer Banks.

Filmed and directed by local documentary filmmaker Neal Hutcheson and produced by renowned NCSU linguist Walt Wolfram, "The Carolina Brogue"
will make you a little jealous to be lacking that utterly unique English/Scots-Irish/Eastern North Carolina lilting speech yourself (which actually pretty often sounds almost Australian).