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INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY

 

So clap on yer scratchy peg leg and gather yer hearties cause no matter where you be, Pirates everywhere can bellow “Arrrrrr!”

To help you out a little, here is some scurvy pirate lingo to help you blend in on board:

Ahoy! "Hello!"
Avast! Stop and give attention. It can be used in a sense of surprise, "Whoa! Get a load of that!" which today makes it more of a "Check it out" or "No way!" or "Get off!"
Aye! "Why yes, I agree most heartily with everything you just said or did."
Aye aye! "I'll get right on that sir, as soon as my break is over."
Arrr! This one is often confused with arrrgh, which is of course the sound you make when you sit on a pin. "Arrr!” can mean, variously, "yes," "I agree," "I'm happy," "I'm enjoying this beer," "My team is going to win it all," "I saw that television show, it sucked!" and "That was a clever remark you or I just made." And those are just a few of the myriad possibilities of Arrr!
Clap on To clap on is to add a temporary feature. For example, clapping on a sail means rigging an extra one that you will later take down
Davey Jones Locker Davey Jones is a sailors name for the evil spirit of the deep, as well as a term for death. His locker is where unlucky ships, or people, go to rest their eternal souls
Dead Man’s Chest An island in the Bahamas where Blackbeard abandoned 15 of his own men Freebooter Free plunder
Go on the account A slang term for going to sea; It was better to say “Going on the account” than telling people you were to be a Pirate
Grog A popular rum-and-water drink
Kiss the gunners daughter To be flogged about the ship
Me hearty A friend or shipmate
Sea Legs Sailors get their sea legs when they have been at sea for so long that they no longer get sea sick
Sea rover A pirate or a pirate ship
Scuppers Holes pierced in the upper deck of a ship to give surplus water a place to drain
Shiver me Timbers A shiver is a splinter. Timbers are the wood of the ship. If a ship suddenly hit something its timbers were shivered. This can also be used as a term of surprise or shock
Strike the colours To haul down a ships flag as a sign of surrender
Tip the Black spot To make a death threat by giving someone a piece of paper marked with a black spot

For seasoned sea dogs, sail on over to Talk like a Pirate Day, for more information.