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Trust me, if you think the pirate accent is an exageration you've not spent time in the West Country snoopcester Send a noteboard - 19/09/2012 08:05:07 PM
He was from the West Country, but the pirate accent is a gross exaggeration of that, and the words used were, as the article points out rightly, mostly invented by Robert Louis Stevenson. It's about as accurate as having "Talk like a Knight Day" based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail.


The pirate link to the West Country is strong and pre-dates the era of film though - Drake, Raleigh, Dampier, Teach are all from that area (yes, I'm mixing privateers in with pirates, since the difference is purely down to perspective). During that era Bristol was the second largest city in England and the main port.
In terms of culture, we have Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan also pre-dating the film era.

I'm not going to dispute the words being made up, except the "arr" which is just over exaggerated, but the accent isn't unreasonable by any means and probably accurate more often than not for English pirates.
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I want to pre-empt your asinine Pirate Day with the inconvenient truth. - 19/09/2012 03:29:45 AM 1323 Views
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Trust me, if you think the pirate accent is an exageration you've not spent time in the West Country - 19/09/2012 08:05:07 PM 1004 Views
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