{"id":7376,"date":"2011-11-18T03:30:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T11:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=7376"},"modified":"2011-11-18T03:58:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T11:58:43","slug":"how-the-classic-arrrrrr-noise-worked-its-way-into-movie-pirate-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/how-the-classic-arrrrrr-noise-worked-its-way-into-movie-pirate-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Classic &#8220;Arrrrrr&#8221; Noise Worked Its Way Into Movie Pirate Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pirate-talk-arrrr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7377\" title=\"pirate-talk-arrrr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pirate-talk-arrrr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pirate-talk-arrrr.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pirate-talk-arrrr-340x313.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The classic \u201carrrrr\u201d noise that accompanies pirate-speak in movies is thought to have its origins in the 1950s version of Treasure Island.\u00a0 Actor Robert Newton played a particularly memorable pirate character, Silver. He later popularly reprised the role in sequels and on TV.\u00a0 His accent on the films featured a very strong rolling of the R\u2019s, which is thought to be how \u201carrrrr\u201d worked its way into pirate-speak.\u00a0 Most of the rest of pirate-speak, like \u201cavast\u201d, are simply just old nautical terms classically used by all seaman, not just pirates.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Origins of the jolly roger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/origins-of-the-jolly-roger\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classic \u201carrrrr\u201d noise that accompanies pirate-speak in movies is thought to have its origins in the 1950s version of Treasure Island.\u00a0 Actor Robert Newton played a particularly memorable pirate character, Silver. He later popularly reprised the role in sequels and on TV.\u00a0 His accent on the films featured a very strong rolling of the R\u2019s, which is thought to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[821,1435,1434],"class_list":["post-7376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-movie-trivia","tag-pirate-speak","tag-pirate-talk-origins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7379,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7376\/revisions\/7379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}