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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
A pirate who talks in a lower class London accent.
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Considering Limehouse and Wapping's population of sailors, I'm pretty sure that was fairly common.
According to Patrick O'Brien's historical fiction, even the Malay and Chinese sailors in a British man of war tended to develop a strong Limehouse accent from learning English from their fellow sailors.
As pirates were often sailors who had mutinied or deserted, I imagine most of the English-speaking ones spoke with a decided tinge of the London docks (overlaid on native Irish for many of them, of course).