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This tag is for questions related to the English language as used in the Caribbean.

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What is the factual basis for "pirate speech"? (Did pirates really say things like "shiver m...

There really isn't much of a basis in fact at all, but it has some non-fiction roots. "Nearly all of our notions of their behavior come from the golden age of fictional piracy, which reached its zeni …
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