Alright enough with the crazy pirate lingo you might say, but what other better way to spend a rainy Monday at home with a sick kid, then talk like a drunken pirate. For fun, Lilly and I are reading a great children's book, Shiver Me Letters, A Pirate ABC book while we watch the first Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
So here is your lesson in letters pirates may have or have not used in their quirky vocabulary. First letter and for mostly the most important letter in a pirate's vocabulary is "R". Other letters are familiar but not widely used such as B, C, D, E, F, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, T, U, V, and X.
A is for Aye because every good sailor or pirate better say "Aye, Aye, sir" to his captain or be strung up on a yard iron
G is for all the gold pirates need to plunder
H is for hooks for hands some chose to wear
P is what a pirate does best, that is to plunder
R is for everything in a pirate's vocabulary
S is for a ship that pirates need to sail the seven seas
W is for wench. I'll let you look that one up
Y is for yard irons that pirates strung each other up
Z is not as widely used as R but pirates do like to sleep
According to National Geographic, pirates did not really talk this way and they most likely spoke as regular English speaking sailors of the day but popular culture has created a pirate languauge that we all love and use thanks to Walt Disney's Treasure Island movie from the 1950's and the newest flicks with Johnny Depp and company. Oh well, leave to a historian to ruin International Talk Like a Pirate Day but none the less, let us at least pretend to be swashbuckling pirates and "Yo, ho, ho all aboard for we set sail on this day to pilage and plunder the high seas!
Aye, I be leavin' ye for the high seas!
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