09-20-2006
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#18 (permalink)
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LPD: found this handy cheatsheet here  Pirate to Not Pirate Phrasebook:- Ahoy! - Hello
- Avast! - Oi, you!
- Yarrrr! - Used to intensify the previous statment, e.g. 'I quite fancy a cup of tea. Yaarrrr!'
- Arrrr! - Innit (see also)
- Dog - Person who is disapproved of
- Lubber, Landlubber - One who is not a seaman, an incompetent person (c.f. Muggle)
- Mumping villain - see 'Dog'
- Slab-sided bugger - see 'Dog'
- Wretched scrofulous whoreson bilge rat - see 'Dog'
- Splice the mainbrace - What you say to make people do something on a ship
- Luff, me hearties! - What you say when 'splice the mainbrace' doesn't work
- Aye - Aiiee
- Yo ho - Hello woman
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