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Arrr! Welcome to our inlet, matey. I know that you are nothing but a sprog but I love you anyway... and will help you learn.

Startin'Rules

 * **Double up on all your adjectives** and you'll be bountifully bombastic with your phrasing. Pirates never speak of "a big ship", they call it a "great, grand ship!" They never say never, they say "No nay ne'er!"
 * **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".
 * 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". **Ne'er speak in anythin' but the present tense!**

Hints an' Tips
If it be helpin', start yer sentence wi' a "Arr, me hearty," in a deep, throaty voice — ye'll find that the rest be comin' much easier.

Vocabulary
//In which ye'll find words submitted by many pirates o'er the years, an' which comprise a loose piratical dictionary.//
 * **Ahoy**: Hey!
 * **Avast**: Stop!
 * **Aye**: Yes
 * **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...
 * **Fiddlers Green**: the private heaven where pirates be goin' when they die.
 * **Furner**: a ship which be yer own, not one ye steal an' plunder.
 * **Gentlemen o' fortune**: a slightly more positive term fer pirates!
 * **Go on the account**: to embark on a piratical cruise
 * **Grog**: A pirate's favorite drink.
 * **Jack**: a flag or a sailor
 * **Jolly Roger**: the skull and crossbones, the pirate flag!
 * **Keelhaul**: a truly vicious punishment where a scurvy dog be tied to a rope and dragged along the barnacle-encrusted bottom of a ship. They not be survivin' this.
 * **Landlubber**: "Land-lover," someone not used to life onboard a ship.
 * **Lass**: A woman.
 * **Lily-livered**: faint o' heart
 * **Matey**: A shipmate or a friend.
 * **Me hearty**: a friend or shipmate.
 * **Me**: My.
 * **Pieces o' eight**: pieces o' silver which can be cut into eights to be givin' small change.
 * **Privateer**: a pirate officially sanctioned by a national power
 * **Scallywag**: A bad person. A scoundrel.
 * **Scurvy dog!**: a fine insult!
 * **Shiver me timbers!**: an exclamation of surprise, to be shouted most loud.
 * **Sprogs**: raw, untrained recruits
 * **Squadron**: a group of ten or less warships
 * **Squiffy**: a buffoon
 * **Swaggy**: a scurvy cur's ship what ye be intendin' to loot!
 * **Swashbucklin'**: fightin' and carousin' on the high seas!
 * **Sweet trade**: the career of piracy
 * **Thar**: The opposite of "here."
 * **Walk the plank**: this one be bloody obvious.
 * **Yo-ho-ho**: Pirate laughter