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I, I, Smarty Pants, if it's adventure and buried treasure you seek, then perhaps it's a pirate's life for you.

There's just one thing.

Most pirates didn't talk like that.

Huh?

The pirate talk you're used to hearing can be traced most accurately back to the 1950s in the United States.

When Disney released the movie, Treasure Island, featuring Long John Silver.

A fictional swashbuckling pirate with a peg leg and a pet parrot.

The fact is, most of what you know about pirates is wrong.

And most of what's true is unknown.

And that's because there's almost nothing written about pirates by pirates.

Oi, you tried writing on a rockin' boat in a stormy sea with crass and waves getting your

papers all nice and soggy.

For example, the way they talk.

Since pirates came from all over, they simply brought whatever homeland dialect or manner of speaking aboard with them.

Many pirates came from the British Isles, so if me and me mate sound British, it's because we are.

Take R for example.

That became known as Pirate Speak, but the truth is, in those days R was a common word in the English West country.

Sort of a way of saying, yes, not unlike how Canadians and sentences with A.

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