Talk Like a Pirate Day? Not Even Pirates Spoke Pirate
Arr you kidding me? "Walk the plank," other bon mots are pure pop culture.
By Ker Than,
for National Geographic News
PUBLISHED September 19, 2017
Brace yourself for a barrage of "salty dogs," "scallywags," and "swabbies." Tuesday is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, a parody holiday and general nerdfest ginned up on an Oregon racquetball court in 1995 to honor buccaneer speech of the 17th and 18th centuries.
But did pirates really "arr" and "avast" all the time? Probably not, experts say, though it's tough to say exactly how most so-called Golden Age pirates really talked.
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