Editor's Corner

The pirate speaks,"Good mornin’ everyone! Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day, so I be writin’ t’ Editor’s Corner in t’ English-to-Pirate translator. Instead o’ writin’ about Latin terms, words with French roots, or tryin’ t’ get you t’ use t’ correct punctuation, I encourage you t’ pick up a few words from t’ Pirate Dictionary and have some fun! Enjoy your day, you scurvy dogs!"

Yer Cap’n,

Mary Flint

Assorted terms from the Pirate Glossary (site below):

· Arr! – An exclamation.

· Avast! – A command meaning stop or desist.

· blow the man down – To kill someone.

· dance the hempen jig – To hang.

· grog blossom – A redness on the nose or face of persons who drink ardent spirits to excess.

· hang the jib – To pout or frown.

· hempen halter – The hangman’s noose.

· Scupper that! – An expression of anger or derision meaning "Throw that overboard!"

· Show a leg! – A phrase used to wake up a sleeping pirate.

· Squiffy – Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy.

· swing the lead – The lead was a weight at the bottom of a line that gave sailors a way to measure depth when near land. To Swing the Lead was considered a simple job, and thus came to represent one who is avoiding work or taking the easy work over the hard. In today’s terms, one who swings the lead is a slacker.

· take a caulk – To take a nap. On the deck of a ship, between planks, was a thick caulk of black tar and rope to keep water from between decks. This term came about either because sailors who slept on deck ended up with black lines across their backs or simply because sailors laying down on deck were as horizontal as the caulk of the deck itself.

Sites used:

· Pirate name generator (http://gangstaname.com/names/pirate/generate)

· English-to-Pirate Translator (http://talklikeapirate.com/translator.html)

· Pirate Glossary (http://www.pirateglossary.com/A_Pirates_Glossary_of_Terms.html)

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