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1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Sep-2018 16:43:57 EDT Adam

   And now I'm curious...where did the idea of a "pirate accent" develop? It must be an invention of old Hollywood, yeah? Surely, pirate crews were (and are) too diverse to have a unified accent. Many of them wouldn't even have spoken English!

   1. ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊ (dajbelshaw@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Sep-2018 16:46:52 EDT ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊

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      @ink_slinger It's basically a modified Somerset farmers accent.

   2. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Sep-2018 16:54:12 EDT Adam

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      From Wikipedia: Stereotypical pirate accents are modeled on those of Cornwall, South Devon or the Bristol Channel area in South West England, though they can also be based on Elizabethan era English or other parts of the world. Pirates in film, television and theatre are generally depicted as speaking English in a particular accent and speech pattern that sounds like a stylized West Country accent, exemplified by Robert Newton's performance as Long John Silver in the 1950 film Treasure Island.