# Pirate accent **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 22, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-accent/318130 "2005-08-22T16:25:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-accent/318130/21 "2005-08-25T06:44:32Z")
Technically, I believe most pirates spoke a form of Pidgin English. I believe the post-modern classical accent is inaccurate. ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-accent/318130/22 "2005-08-25T08:39:21Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > The word “Mummerset” is used, a humorous construction from “mummer” and “Somerset”. Let’s not forget that there were seafarers all along the Devon and Cornwall coasts, too, all broadly “West Country” speakers tho’ there’s a discernible difference between Bristol and Cornwall for a start (and that’s before you consider Cornish-speakers themselves). My dad, who is from Sussex, calls it the _Oi be makin’ Zoiderrr_ accent (“I am making Cider!”). ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-accent/318130/23 "2005-08-25T15:26:30Z")
> [@Sarah Woodruff](#): > > My dad, who is from Sussex, calls it the _Oi be makin’ Zoiderrr_ accent (“I am making Cider!”). He’d be keel-hauled for making those sort of remarks round here… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-accent/318130.md?page=1)