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Arrgh!  A holiday that my wife and her family really enjoy celebrating is on September 19th.  It is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.  In Honor of this wonderful holiday, we decided to dress up Isabelle in her official Baby Pirate uniform.

You may be asking, how do I talk like a pirate? Well, I did a little research through her family and here is what I came up with.  To my surprise, there are actually some rules to be followed:

 

How To Be Speakin' Pirate-Like-Startin' Rules

·       Double up on all your adjectives and you'll be bountifully bombastic with your phrasing. Pirates never speak of "a big ship", they call it a "great, grand ship!" They never say never, they say "No nay ne'er!"

·       Drop all your "g"'s when you speak and you'll get words like "rowin'", "sailin'" and "fightin'". Dropping all of your "v"'s will get you words like "ne'er", "e'er" and "o'er".

·       Instead of saying "I am", sailors say, "I be". Instead of saying "You are", sailors say, "You be". Instead of saying, "They are", sailors say, "They be". Ne'er speak in anythin' but the present tense!

·       If it be helpin', start yer sentence wi' a "Arr, me hearty," in a deep, throaty voice — ye'll find that the rest be comin' much easier.

SOME COMMON PIRATE TERMS

THE FIVE “A”S

        THE TERM                      MEANS

1.   AHOY                              HELLO

2.   AVAST                             STAND AND GIVE ATTENTION

3.   AYE                                 YES, I AGREE MOST HEARTILY

4.   AYE,AYE                         YES, I'LL GET RIGHT ON IT

5.   ARRGH                            ANYTHING YOU WANT IT TO MEAN

 

MORE TERMS

1.   YO

2.   BLOODY

3.   AYE, MATES

4.   YARRH, MATE

5.   WOULD YOU LIKE A SCURVY_________?

 

Ahoy: Hey! A BASIC PIRATE DICTIONARY

·       Avast: Stop!

·       Aye: Yes

·       Black spot: to be 'placin' the black spot' be markin' someone for death.

·       Booty: treasure

·       Buccanneer: a pirate who be answerin' to no man or blasted government.

·       By the Powers!: an exclamation, uttered by Long John Silver in Treasure Island!

·       Cat o' nine tails: whip for floggin' mutineers

·       Corsair: a pirate who be makin' his berth in the Med-...Medi-...that sea 'tween Spain and Africa, aye!

·       Davy Jones' Locker: the bottom o' the sea, where the souls of dead men lie

·       Doubloons: pieces of gold...

·       Fiddlers Green: the private heaven where pirates be goin' when they die.

·       Furner: a ship which be yer own, not one ye steal an' plunder.

·       Gentlemen o' fortune: a slightly more positive term fer pirates!

·       Go on the account: to embark on a piratical cruise

·       Grog: A pirate's favorite drink.

·       Jack: a flag or a sailor

·       Jolly Roger: the skull and crossbones, the pirate flag!

·       Keelhaul: a truly vicious punishment where a scurvy dog be tied to a rope and dragged along the barnacle-encrusted bottom of a ship. They not be survivin' this.

·       Landlubber: "Land-lover," someone not used to life onboard a ship.

·       Lass: A woman.

·       Lily-livered: faint o' heart

·       Loaded to the Gunwales (pron. gunnels): drunk

·       Matey: A shipmate or a friend.

·       Me hearty: a friend or shipmate.

·       Me: My.

·       Pieces o' eight: pieces o' silver which can be cut into eights to be givin' small change.

·       Privateer: a pirate officially sanctioned by a national power

·       Scallywag: A bad person. A scoundrel.

·       Scurvy dog!: a fine insult!

·       Shiver me timbers!: an exclamation of surprise, to be shouted most loud.

·       Son of a Biscuit Eater: a derogatory term indicating a bastard son of a sailor

·       Sprogs: raw, untrained recruits

·       Squadron: a group of ten or less warships

·       Squiffy: a buffoon

·       Swaggy: a scurvy cur's ship what ye be intendin' to loot!

·       Swashbucklin': fightin' and carousin' on the high seas!

·       Sweet trade: the career of piracy

·       Thar: The opposite of "here."

·       Walk the plank: this one be bloody obvious.

·       Wench: a lady, although ye gents not be wantin' to use this around a lady who be stronger than ye.

·       Wi' a wannion: wi' a curse, or wi' a vengeance. Boldly, loudly!

·       Yo-ho-ho: Pirate laughter

So for all those land lubbers and me Privateers & Wench's who be lookin fer a place to lay your head in Myrtle Beach Real Estate let me be your matey to help ye find your booty!  Also if you are a land lubber needin to sell yer furner let me help before ya walk the plank and end up in Davy Jones' Locker!

Jeremy Blanton- Myrtle Beach Real Estate Expert

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