Talk Like a Pirate Day Created in 1995 as a joke, John Bauer and Mark Summers created this new holiday when they were playing a game of racquetball. The holiday become known to the world when John and Mark mailed a letter about it to Dave Barry, a humor columnist, who gave it the ex...
Season your speech with "Arr": Just like a little salt and pepper, Arr goes with anything you say in pirate lingo. If you're happy go ahead and bark a mighty Arr. It can also be used with a whole manner of phrases or meanings. You can say it if you stub your toe. Or right be...
Practice the Pirate Patois:Words like “Ahoy”, “Blimey”, and “Shiver me timbers” roll off the tongue differently than modern slang. Practicing these phrases adds authenticity to your tone. The Power of Pause:Like any seasoned raconteur, a pirate knows the power of a dramatic pause. ...
We also “ch” up our t’s and “j” up our d’s in certain words. So the second day of the week is “Chooseday”; a tube is a “choob.”“Due” (d-u-e) is pronounced just like “jew” (j-e-w). And if you are spelling words for us, instead of imitating a pirate wh...
I really dislike the whole ‘irresistible alpha male semi-forces himself on other bloke, confident he will like it in the end, and of course he does’ trope. It’s one of the things that generally puts me off pirate novels – all that threat of rape. Fortunately Griffin is too proud ...
I took a funny sort of step the other day. Even though I had put my feet down exactly the same way I always did, I couldn't help but feeling like I had moved backward somehow. It ended up having an unfortunate echo, or rather, it's analogous to something more unfortunate. I've ...
We also “ch” up our t’s and “j” up our d’s in certain words. So the second day of the week is “Chooseday”; a tube is a “choob.”“Due” (d-u-e) is pronounced just like “jew” (j-e-w). And if you are spelling words for us, instead of imitating a pirate wh...