International Talk Like a Pirate Day

I KNOW!!!! Three posts in one day is a little absurd after not blogging much at all for the last couple weeks, but this HAS TO BE HERE. Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and below you can find some starter vocab:

• Addled -- Mad, insane, or just stupid. An "addlepate" is a fool.
• Ahoy -- "Hello!"
• Avast! -- "Hey!" Could be used as "Stop that!" or "Who goes there?"
• Begad! -- By God!
• Bilge! -- Nonsense, or foolish talk. The bilges of a ship are the lowest parts, inside the hull along the keel. They fill with stinking bilgewater -- or just "bilge."
• Bilge-sucking -- A very uncomplimentary adjective.
• Blimey! -- An exclamation of surprise.
• Booty -- Loot.
• Cap'n -- Short for "captain."
• Corsair -- A more romantic term for pirate. But still a pirate.
• Davy Jones' locker -- The bottom of the sea.
• Deadlights -- Eyes. "Use yer deadlights, matey!"
• Dead men tell no tales -- Standard pirate excuse for leaving no survivors.
• Feed the fish -- What you do when you are thrown into the sea, dead or alive.
• Grog -- Generically, any alcoholic drink. Specifically, rum diluted with water to make it go farther.
• Landlubber or just lubber -- A non-sailor.
• Me hearties -- Typical way for a pirate leader to address his crew.
• Matey -- A piratical way to address someone in a cheerful, if not necessarily friendly, fashion.
• No quarter! -- Surrender will not be accepted.
• Pillage -- To raid, rob, and sack a target ashore.
• Pirate -- A seagoing robber and murderer. Contrast with privateer.
• Poxy, poxed -- Diseased. Used as an insult.
• Rope's end -- another term for flogging. "Ye'll meet the rope's end for that, me bucko!"
• Rum (noun) -- Traditional pirate drink.
• Salt, old salt -- An experienced seaman.
• Scurvy -- (1) A deficiency disease which often afflicted sailors; it was caused by lack of vitamin C. (2) A derogatory adjective suitable for use in a loud voice, as in "Ye scurvy dogs!"
• Shiver me timbers! -- An expression of surprise or strong emotion.
• Sink me! -- An expression of surprise.
• Smartly -- Quickly. "Smartly there, men!" = "Hurry up!"
• Splice the mainbrace -- To have a drink. Or, perhaps, several drinks.
• Swag -- Loot.
• Walk the plank -- A piratical execution. The victim, usually blindfolded or with bound hands or both, is forced to walk along a plank laid over the ship's side, to fall into the water below. Except this seems to be a total invention; it first appeared in 19th-century fiction, long after the great days of piracy.
• Wench -- An individual of the female persuasion. "Saucy" is a good adjective to add to this, and if ye can get away with "Me proud beauty!," more power to ye.
• Yo-ho-ho -- A very piratical thing to say, whether it actually means anything or not.