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 AVAST YE LANDLUBBERS!!!
Here's a page full of pirate talk.
You might not
know it but 19 September each year is called "Talk Like a Pirate
Day", and many people take part in this fun day by talking like a
pirate all day long. Here in Queensland, we will be celebrating it
on the last day of school term, 22 September and will be raising
funds for Children with Cancer. More news on that later!!
For now
here's some words and phrases you can use to practice talking like
a pirate! |
Pirates never say anything in an ordinary way.
Everything is always better and bolder when talking like a
pirate!! Here's some clues:
-
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".
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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.
- Ahoy:
Hey!
- Arrr:
Yes, I
agree, I'm happy
- Avast:
Stop!
- Aye:
Yes
- Bilge Rat:
an insult
- Black spot:
to be 'placin' the black spot' be markin' someone for
death. As in Treasure Island.
- Booty:
treasure
- Bung hole
– Food on a ship were stored in wooden casks. The
stopper in the barrel is called the bung, and the hole
is called the bung hole.
- 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
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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.
- Hornpipe:
Both a single-reeded musical instrument sailors often
had aboard ship, and a spirited dance that sailors do.
- 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 Beauty:
A lovely lady
- 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!:
another fine insult!
- Shiver me timbers!:
an exclamation of surprise, to be shouted most loud.
- Smartly:
do something quickly.
- Son of a Biscuit
Eater:
a derogatory term indicating a 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 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
Terms
from the Official UK Talk Like a Pirate site and the
original Talk Like a Pirate Day site.
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