INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY.. JIM LAD

It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Have you been doing it? There's still time to call someone and do your Capt Jack Sparrow impression. You never know you could be called to a casting to play a pirate.  I have.

If you're stuck for what to say.... try:
From Lt. Robert Maynards report of Blackbeard at the Battle of Ocracoke
He styl'd us 'young puppies' and shouted 'May the Devil take my soul if I ever gives quarter or asks it of ye!'
Or..
"Damn ye, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, I'm a better man than all of ye milksops put together"
The only written records recovered from Blackbeard's ship, the Adventure, after his death ran as follows:

Such a day, rum all out- Our company somewhat sober- A damned confusion amongst us !- Rogues a-plotting - Great talk of separation- so I looked sharp for a prize- Such a day found one with a great deal of liquor on board, so kept the company hot, damned hot, then things went well again.

Treasure Island
One of the most influential books on popular notions of pirate speech was Treasure Island, a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, from which sample quotes include:

"Bring me one noggin of rum now, won't you, matey."
"Avast, there!"
"Dead men don't bite."
"Shiver my timbers!" (often pronounced as "Shiver me timbers!")
"Fifteen men on a dead man's chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"