Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Did pirates really say "arrrr"?

Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow character famously speaks in a dissolute London mumble inspired by Keith Richards. But virtually all his crewmen hew to the classic movie-pirate patois, full of growled consonants and shiver-me-timbers slang. Wait, did pirates really say "arrrrr"?



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