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To: hoagy62

Actually pirate talk is 18th century seafaring English, or Hollywoods version of it. Here is the Real McCoy in this song about a privateer in the late 1700s.

Barrett’s Privateers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E45ee-1gMs


67 posted on 09/19/2014 8:41:08 AM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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To: Uncle Lonny
The Eddystone Light !
70 posted on 09/19/2014 9:04:10 AM PDT by twister881
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To: Uncle Lonny

Too bad it doesn’t actually state English; can you link a reference?

Still sounds Irish to me.

We have others stating Cornish (never heard of that, so must be very isolated) based on a movie.


77 posted on 09/19/2014 11:45:01 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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