Avast me hearties! It be time once more to don ye most piratey outfit, swab the decks, make those landlubbers walk the plank, and most importantly, talk like a pirate! Aye, ye hearing be fine: all day this September 19, all ye bildge rats and buccaneers be needing to use only words from yer most piratey dictionary! Don't ye worry though, maties. Ye still be allowed shower.

In order to assist ye in yer pirate talk, I've typed out some useful words and phrases. (Courtesy of Disney Adventures, August 2006 issue.)


Ahoy! Yo!
Arrr! The pirate's do-everything phrase that can me "Yes" or "I agree" or "That's lame"" or "You're making me mad." Or you can just say it to feel more like a pirate.
Avast: Stop and pay attention; check it out.
Aye: Yes.
Be: Are. "Be ye the scalawag who stole me grub?"
Belay: Stop it. "Belay that non-piratey talk!"
Bilge: The lowest part inside the ship, which is creepy and dirty. When someone says something dumb, pirates call it bilge. Also handy for creating all kinds of insults: "Ye bilge rat!"
Booty: Treasure taken on land.
Buccaneer: A Caribbean pirate.
Bucko: Friend.
Chantey: A song sailors sill while doing their choes.
Cutlass: A short, curved sword, the standard pirate weapon.
Dead men tell no tales: The classic pirate excuse for leaving no one alive.
Deadlights: Eyes. "Keep yer deadlights on that treasure, matey!"
Fair winds and following seas! Goodbye and good luck on your voyage!
Grub: Food.
Hearties: Fellow sailors.
Ho! "Wow!" or "Look at that!" or "Get going!" (as in "westward ho!")
Jolly Roger: The classic pirate flag with a skull and crossbones.
Landlubber (or lubber): Someone who's clueless about the sea or sailing.
Matey: Dude. "Gangway, matey!"
Me: My.
No quarter! Surrender is not accepted.
Pieces of eight: Spanish silver coins worth one peso or eight "reales".
Poop deck: The partial deck above the ship's main deck.
Sail ho! "I see a ship!"
Scalawag: Bad guy.
Sea dog: A veteran sailor.
Sea legs: being able to adjust your balance to the motion of the ship.
Shiver me timbers! "Whoa!" or "No way!" or "I can't believe it!" or "I'm shocked!"
Strike colors: Lower a ship's flag to signal surrender.
Swab: To clean, especially the deck. It's also a handy insult: Get back here, you cowardly swab!"
Weigh anchor: To lift the anchor and leave port.
Ye: You.
Yo-ho-ho: It doesn't really mean anything, but it sure sound piratey!


There's also a translator here (http://apps.pirates.go.com/pirates/v1/index?pageId=translator)!

I remember I had one of these in VMK one day some people caught on but other didn't it was quite fun I mad a pirate ship and everything.

Arg it be a nice thing for ye to post something like this. All the hearties will appreciate this!

How was that for piratey talk?

thanks for posting this! not many people know about national talk like a pirate day :)

who has created this national holiday?

It be created in 1995,Lad! Most likey from a lad who had to much time on his dirty hands! Yarrr!

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.

Arg, copied from a scurvy news article!

already? i celebrated this last year.. lol its AWESOME!

Ahoy! There now be a pirate translator (http://apps.pirates.go.com/pirates/v1/index?pageId=translator) up on the POTCO website!

woot! today in school, we had to dress and we HAD to talk like pirates!
i was like " teach.., aren't we i mean ye a little bit old to be doing tis'?"

ROTFL, but it was so fun! lots of goofing off for us, and in 1 of our classes, (math i tink) we got to play the dice game!
lol, good way to miss important lessons ;)