I actually heard some Americans claim that the British originally spoke with an accent that’s way more similar to today’s American accent, and then started “faking” it on purpose after US independence to separate them, and this led to current British accents.
I think this is idiotic and false, but hey, in this world view that means that an American voice actor would be the best person to voice a pre-1776 Brit 
If you examine the flower, it says it’s Sleeping Poodle. That should be a hint.
The faking part is of course either tongue in cheek or stupid but the first part of that is simply true. 
Otis mentions them.
Yeah people love the idea that the Appalachian accent or the Southern accent is somehow a frozen-in-time Colonial English accent. It’s like clickbait headlines, if it’s absolutely absurd and has a grain of truth, people love to believe it.
The only American accents that would be more hilarious to make this claim with are our Surfer or Fargo accents. So I expect these claims to be made soon and catch on like wildfire.
Rats belong in a vat of soup, not in a jail cell!
I would agree, up until they cast Dominic Armato as Guybrush Threepwood. Now he’s canonically a yank.
Yeah, I’m a Brit and can confirm that’s utter bunkum. I was around during the 16th Century and we always said TOE-MAR-TOE.
That’s incredibly interesting for me. Where can I learn more about how the British accent has evolved over time?
I don’t want to derail this thread too much off topic, though. If you could just mention a few links/books/resources to study, I would really appreciate it. 
I’m fairly ignorant on the topic but here’s a pretty interesting read from the BBC: How Americans preserved British English - BBC Culture
After pestering poor seagulls and stealing their food, no less!
Shame on you…
I have just discovered that I have missed another completely optional room for thirty years… but it was in MI2. 
Since I’m planning to do a playthrough of MI2 as well, I’ll try to find this room later.
Well, I’ve just finished the game and I want to thank @LogicDeLuxe for the magnificent Ultimate Talkie Edition. 
By the way, was it you who fixed the “multiple ghost keys” bug? Or was is already fixed in the VGA version?
I remember I read something, about this old world nod.
Anyway, it makes perfectly sense. I might be wrong, but -historicallly speaking- it is quite unlikely he came from the States. I bet all the adventurers coming in the Caribbean in 1600 were from England, France, Spain. Holland, at most.
Anyway I gave it for granted he was British.
Well, the fact that Guybrush is British seemed pretty obvious to ME doesn’t mean that it was for anybody. Since his mother country isn’t essential for the plot, my guess is simply that the casting director of CMI (when Dominic Armato was hired, and Ron Gilbert no longer had a say in the matter) didn’t bother to ask himself if Guybrush could have been “stranger”.
But I like to think, a posteriori, that an american accent is coherent: Guybrush, the mighty pirate who lived straddling XVII and XVIII century, is British. But Guybrush, the kid who impersonated him while playing with his brother, seems to be a XIX century rural american boy, with some old-fashioned parents.
AFAIR, Otis says the flowers are called “caniche endormi”, but…
…I didn’t remember Guybrush gave it away like this!
Hey, this is still the old TWP forum! 
Isn’t that the same room where you hang with Wally? 
While that screenshot is obviously taken in some unfinished pre-release version, that room does exist in the released game.
In fact, I did. It’s mentioned in the readme.txt. There is a long list of bug fixes, with a mention of game versions in which they existed.
Me neither. In what version does he mention that? Some translated version, I suppose.
From this perspective, it makes a lot of sense!
Ok, I’ll derail it as much as possible. 
I don’t know if it’s related to that other room, but the style is very similar.
Just reading through the readme now. You did all of this? Absolutely amazing, thanks for all the work!
What’s that?
