Tips from the Talk Like a Pirate Day U.K. Headquarters. Just for starters...
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!"
Be ye ready to talk like a pirate?
PotBS Celebrates Talk Like A Pirate Day In Seattle
Pirates of the Burning Sea has become the official video game of International Talk Like A Pirate Day (September 19th), and to celebrate they are raiding the coastline of Seattle, causing a right ruckus in the streets, and hanging about the Seattle Aquarium looking swarthy and unkempt.
The Wichita Eagle is celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day by inviting readers to submit piratey haikus. For example:
Listen here, mateyClick here to submit your own pirate haiku, and to check out their piratespeak quiz.
It be five, seven and five
Or ye walk the plank
Due to the time difference, Talk Like a Pirate Day starts in the UK before it starts here in the US.
Ahoy there landlubbers -- it's time to talk pirate
September 19 is your once-a-year chance to don an eye patch, sport a ridiculously large hat and keep on saying "Arrrrr.Click here for more.
It all started back in the 1990s as a cult joke between two American friends -- John "Ol Chumbucket" Baur and Mark "Capn Slappy" Summers -- but really took off when syndicated columnist Dave Barry got to hear about their surreal festival.
"We tap into that need for whimsy in people's lives," Summers says of the 24-hour celebration of quirkiness when they urge all self-respecting swashbucklers to show "pirattitude."
