The Cornish accent is associated with pirates because Robert Newton played a lot of pirate characters, most famously Long John Silver, and he had a Cornish accent.
Yes, I know the story, though, honestly, lotta rl pirates from Bristol (Yes I know that's Somerset, it and Devon are "Greater Conwall" fight me.)
In reality Cornish accents are simply the closest to Shakespeare. A lot of people hear Yorkshire or Welsh or even Norwegian, because that was all part of the London community that developed Early Standard English. Having lived in Frisia, I hear a lot of Frisian.
The Cornish accent is associated with pirates because Robert Newton played a lot of pirate characters, most famously Long John Silver, and he had a Cornish accent.
Yes, I know the story, though, honestly, lotta rl pirates from Bristol (Yes I know that's Somerset, it and Devon are "Greater Conwall" fight me.)
In reality Cornish accents are simply the closest to Shakespeare. A lot of people hear Yorkshire or Welsh or even Norwegian, because that was all part of the London community that developed Early Standard English. Having lived in Frisia, I hear a lot of Frisian.
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