Learn English words about International Talk Like a Pirate Day in the US
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| Alisha: All righty, welcome back to weekly words. My name is Alisha. Today we are going to talk about a holiday. So today’s holiday is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. |
| International Talk Like A Pirate Day is a parodic holiday meaning it’s a silly holiday that was created in 1995 to be celebrated on September 19th and everyone in the world is encouraged to talk like a pirate. September 19, maybe that sounds really pirate when you say it. All right, so in a sentence, let’s have a party for International Talk Like A Pirate Day and dress up like pirates. |
| Shiver me timbers, I am learning something right now. It says timbers are the wooden support frames of a ship. In heavy seas, ships would be lifted up and pounded down so hard as to shiver – the timber shivers like when you shake, when you are cold, so that the wooden support frames of the ship would shiver. They would shake like that in really rough waters. So when you say the phrase shiver me timbers, it’s to express maybe like fear or awe or amazement in some way. I’d probably be like, oh my god, I almost got hit by that train, shiver me timbers. I don’t know. |
| Ahoy, matey! I’ve actually used this phrase Ahoy means hello or hey there and matey means friend like some people use mate to refer to their friends. So this is a pirate way to say hello there, hey friend in other words. In a sentence, umm let’s see Ahoy, matey! I see you are drinking beer. May I join you? |
| Landlubber is the next word. Landlubber is just somebody who doesn’t have experience being on the water, being on boats, being on the sea. So a Landlubber probably is someone who gets seasick. I hate sailing with Landlubbers because they complain all the time. |
| The next word is Arr. Okay, it says here a generic All Purpose Pirate Exclamation. I picked it up. A lot of people just use Arr…when they are frustrated. Honestly, at least I do regardless of whether or not it’s international pirate day, we just say Arr like when you are having difficulty with your computer for example, I might go Arr…or something like that but I think to be extra-pirate, you have to really enunciate that A sound at the beginning like Arr….something like that is a little bit more pirate perhaps. Give it a try. When you mess up something Arr…Arr… |
| Okay that’s all for International Talk Like A Pirate Holidays Words. We will see you again next time for more fun stuff. Bye bye, Arr….A piratic. |
| Matt: Hey Alisha, did you hear about that sexy pirate movie? |
| Alisha: No tell me about it. |
| Matt: It’s rated Arr…. |
| Alisha: Arr…. |
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