Bagad! Avast and ahoy! Shiver me timbers, have yer a land-lubbing youngster or a budding salty seadog?
If they be not too lily-livered, get them down to one of our libraries to feast their beady eyes on a booty of pirate books to celebrate International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
A bounty of pirate books and wordy treasures in our libraries awaits including:
Polly Parrot Picks a Pirate
The Skeleton Pirate
My Granny is a Pirate
Pirate Underpants
Munch, Crunch, Pirate Lunch
Pirate Pete and his Smelly Feet
Come today (in costume or without) and aaaaaaaaagh-sk to see them! No plank walking will be tolerated!
The Metro newspaper printed a guide to ‘How to speak pirate’, or as the pirates would say ‘how t’ speak gentleman o’ fortune’. Why not have a go?
Blow me down – Oh my god
Avast ye – Look at this
Heave Ho – Put your back into to it
Pillage – Rob or plunder
Savvy? – Do you understand or do you agree?
Thar she blows! – When you see a whale
In the mean time have fun with this pirate-name generator.