Where Did "Pirate Speak" Come From and the Birth International Talk Like A Pirate Day
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Where Did "Pirate Speak" Come From and the Birth International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Oh hay, I missed the holiday!
Arrrrrgh, mateys!!
Arrrrrgh, mateys!!
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What be a Pirate's favorite letter?
RRR!
No, it be the C.
RRR!
No, it be the C.
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Yesterday I was picking up my 3 year old great niece (THREE!) and she greeted me with "Ahoy, matey!"
Where Did "Pirate Speak" Come From and the Birth International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Ha, I love it!
When my daughter was three, she stepped into my work boots, and clomped around saying "Hey honey, I'm home!"
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
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Where Did "Pirate Speak" Come From and the Birth International Talk Like A Pirate Day
The salient feature of Pirate Talk is rhoticity.
In the 16th and 17the Centuries, Rs were strongly pronounced. When we do Shakespeare plays in OP (Original Pronunciation,~1590-1620) people always remark "That sounds like Pirate English!"
The most direct evidence for this is a contemporary writer who described the R pronunciation as a "doggy sound, like Grrr."
OP would indeed be an accurate dialect for the pirates of the time. It would have been the dialect of the first Jamestown and Plymouth colonists. By now, a goodly number of the docents/re-enactors at those sites have studied OP.
In the 16th and 17the Centuries, Rs were strongly pronounced. When we do Shakespeare plays in OP (Original Pronunciation,~1590-1620) people always remark "That sounds like Pirate English!"
The most direct evidence for this is a contemporary writer who described the R pronunciation as a "doggy sound, like Grrr."
OP would indeed be an accurate dialect for the pirates of the time. It would have been the dialect of the first Jamestown and Plymouth colonists. By now, a goodly number of the docents/re-enactors at those sites have studied OP.
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Where Did "Pirate Speak" Come From and the Birth International Talk Like A Pirate Day
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Where Did "Pirate Speak" Come From and the Birth International Talk Like A Pirate Day
For my son's 7th birthday, we had a pirate party, complete with scavenger maps and root beet in brown bottles. Yhe boys loved it and said all the pirate-y things. Then the half-wit neighbors called the cops on us for giving the kids beer.
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Root beer and sassafras come in brown bottles.sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 8:59 pm For my son's 7th birthday, we had a pirate party, complete with scavenger maps and root beet in brown bottles. Yhe boys loved it and said all the pirate-y things. Then the half-wit neighbors called the cops on us for giving the kids beer.
Where Did "Pirate Speak" Come From and the Birth International Talk Like A Pirate Day
I have a theory that it came from Robert Newton's fantastic performance as the title character in 1952's "Blackbeard the Pirate"
The trailer
The trailer
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Yeah, that's why they called the cops.pipistrelle wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:24 pmRoot beer and sassafras come in brown bottles.sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 8:59 pm For my son's 7th birthday, we had a pirate party, complete with scavenger maps and root beet in brown bottles. Yhe boys loved it and said all the pirate-y things. Then the half-wit neighbors called the cops on us for giving the kids beer.
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Where Did "Pirate Speak" Come From and the Birth International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Robert Newton’s portrayals of Long John Silver, and Blackbeard, while somewhat over the top, were/are great fun. Always thought he was underrated as an actor (in the UK anyway). He might even be the inspiration for tfg’s face paint.
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