Did pirates really speak like they do in movies

Question

phrases like shiver me timbers & avast me hearties in the 'pirate accent' that's used or is that just movieland glamourising them

Answer 1

probably but i think the actors in film over exagerate it because there not true pirates  

Answer 2

For the most part, yes. For example, the "timbers" are the boards that the ship is made of. Here's a good pirate dictionary for beginners.

http://www.tide-mark.com/pirate_dict.htm...

Answer 3

What they actually say is "Where you money!!??, Tel now or you die pig!!..Where money?...  You got nice wife, maybe i keep her, where you money!! NOW!"

Then they may or may not kill you and/or rape any women on board before taking what they want and burning the boat.

Shiver me timbers? I think not.

Answer 4

Yes but only to a certain extent. These stereotypical accents you recall have only relevance from the Elezabethan erea from which these accents resemble accents from cornwall or Bristol.

Other pirates never spoke with the above accents and termology.

Answer 5

i be a modern day pirate and arrr we do me hearty. the parrot is a myth though

Answer 6

Aaaarrrgghhhhh me hearties, tis exactly the way they did speak. Aaarrgghhh

Answer 7

Aaaargh!

Answer 8

Ha haaaarrrrrrrr

Answer 9

arrr they do me hearty.

Answer 10

By golly, I believe you have found their secret, now apply that to everything Hollywood does and you'll be on top.

Answer 11

yep accent and slang

Answer 12

Not sure.  I mean, how would we really know anyway.  It's not like they are around where we could ask them.  But I think they overact that kind of stuff, ya know, to make it interesting.

Answer 13

aggrrrrrr they did  

Answer 14

Arr now that wud be tellin!

Answer 15

AHHHHHHHHH - Thee did laaaad, AHHHHHHHH thee did!

Answer 16

oh I REALLY hope so!!  :o)

Answer 17

Well,

They spoke English.

The phrase and accent were popularized by Robert Newton, the actor who played Long John Silver in the movies and on TV through much of the 1950s.