A few choice vocabulary phrases from the official UK Talk Like a Pirate blog:
- Black spot: to be 'placin' the black spot' be markin' someone for death.
- Booty: treasure
- Buccanneer: a pirate who be answerin' to no man or blasted government.
- By the Powers!: an exclamation, uttered by Long John Silver in Treasure Island!
- Cat o' nine tails: whip for floggin' mutineers
- Corsair: a pirate who be makin' his berth in the Med-...Medi-...that sea 'tween Spain and Africa, aye!
- Davy Jones' Locker: the bottom o' the sea, where the souls of dead men lie
- Doubloons: pieces of gold...
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