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** Similarly, Lord Nelson had a thick Norfolk accent (and may have inspired the sailor/pirate stereotype of saying "Arrr" all the time).
*** The stereotypical 'pirate' accent has probaly more to do with Francis Drake or Walter Raleigh who both spoke with very strong West Country accents and therefore sounded out of place in Elizabeth II's court.
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]: Kofi Kingston is from Ghana (West Africa) but uses (or did for a while) an accent more like he's from Jamaica.
 
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