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International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers of Albany, Oregon, [1] who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate (that is, in English with a stereotypical West Country accent). [2] It has since been adopted by the Pastafarianism ...
What did the pirate say when his wooden leg got stuck in the snow bank? Shiver me timbers. ... He needed a little arrr and arrr. Why do people find it very hard to call a pirate?
"Shiver my timbers" was most famously popularized by the archetypal pirate Long John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883). Silver used the phrase seven times, as well as variations such as "shiver my sides", "shiver my soul" and "shake up your timbers". Another pirate, Israel Hands, also uses the phrase at one point.
There is no documented evidence that they spoke like hillbilly farmers, but since only a few were educated they probably did. The "arrgh" exclamation is commonly attributed to south western farm peoples, so there is some reason to think English pirates did speak in a similar fashion.220.244.247.91 04:06, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
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In 1827 the American story-teller James Fenimore Cooper published his pirate story The Red Rover. The following year der rothe Freibeuter was released in Frankfurt am Main. The translator Karl Meurer did not translate all of the words. The command "All hands make sail, ahoy!" was translated as "Alle zu Hauf!
She was an ally of the pirate and Ottoman leader Khayr al-Dīn, better known in the West as Barbarossa or Redbeard. They harried the Spanish and Portuguese royal navies, simultaneously enriching ...
The Giant Pirates – also known as the Giant Warrior Pirates – is a crew captained by Dorry and Brogy, the warrior duo that the Straw Hat crew encounters during the Little Garden arc.