Today Is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! 287
lucabrasi999 writes "Ahoy! Drink up the Grog, me hearties! Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Grab yer wenches and stop being a bilge-rat." Cap'n Slappy and Ol' Chumbucket have even provided a short YouTube video to help those who might be a bit more pirate-speak challenged. Even Google is getting in on the action, those swarthy dogs.
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TRIVIA:
The actual pirates spoke late Middle English and early Modern. So basically they spake like Chaucer (Wann Aprille mit his soottes shorres) or Shakespeare (Toe bay orrrrr note toe bay, dat ist dey qvest-teeon), albeit less poetic and more common man.
Some of dose scurvy Scots still spake like dey pirates:
"Yalp oot a hay nanny-nanny, and drank up me haarties, yo ho!"
(ducking and running)
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