Arrrgh! Today is the day

[Spudman***]

Alrighty all you guitarrgh players. It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

I think I'll take a bike ride farrrgh from home today.

[Robert****]

Missing Letters
There are a few letters you should never pronounce. The first of them is "g". Drop all your "g"'s when you speak and you'll get words like "rowin'", "sailin'" and "fightin'". Dropping all of your "v"'s will get you words like "ne'er", "e'er" and "o'er".

Big, Bigger, Big Biggest!
Pirates are dramatic, and their speech is doubly so. Pirates never speak of "a big ship", they call it a "great, grand ship!" They never say never, they say "No nay ne'er!" Double up on all your adjectives and you'll be bountifully bombastic with your phrasing.

De-Conjugation
The conjugation is a rather modern invention, one that sailors always seem to be forgetting. Take the verb "to be" for example. Instead of saying "I am", sailors say, "I be". Instead of saying "You are", sailors say, "You be". Instead of saying, "They are", sailors say, "They be". Makes things a lot simpler, doesn't it?

[Spudman***]

Makes things a lot simpler, doesn't it?

He be the eminently wisest amongst us ne'r do wellers. Pickin' and grinnin' is wot he do bestest whether he be big veinin' or lil' veinen'.

Thank ye for puttin' us straight matey. Arrrrgh.

[Tig***]

Well blow me down and shiver me timbers!

[Perfect Stranger]

I was gonna take my granddaughter to the movie, but it was rated arrrgh!

[Bloozcat]

I think they got their dates wrong in Stuart, the town next to me. They had their big "pirate fest" last weekend. Everywhere you looked there were adults and kids dressed as pirates, each speaking as what they thought a pirate should sound like (many quite badly in fact).

The area where I live is known as "The Treasure Coast" for all of the wrecked, gold laden, Spanish galleons that have been discovered off our coast by Mel Fisher and the like. Between the hurricanes, the pirates, and the privateers (state sanctioned pirates) that prowled these shores, many a galleon never made it back to Spain with its cargo of gold.

Aye matey...the booty be mine. And I be cuttin' the heart outta any Scurvy dog or skallywag that say different...