Yvette's Inner Geek Blog

Ahoy, ye scallywags! It be the International Day of Talkin’ Like a Pirate.

In addition to the Pirate Keyboard I passed along ta ye last year, I want ta make it known that ye can start yer readin’ all manner of Pirate books fer free! It be a highly legal opportunity from me good friend, Google Books.

I say ye start wit’ Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island if ye haven’t read that one yet. Y’arrrr likely to find there be a pirate, or hundreds o’ pirates, in all he writes.

Aye, there be also a pirate, goes by the name o’ Hook, in the tale o’ Peter and Wendy by a landlubber named James Matthew Barrie. That’s a picture from the book ta yer left.

And there be Sir Walter Scott’s The Pirate: A Romance, tho’ that’s on me own list of books to read while at sea with a good, strong brew in my hand. Surely there be booty involved in that one.

And don’t ye be fergettin’ ’bout the tale of Blackbeard, the fearsome Pirate of Roanoke! A real life figure he was, not just a tale. Now thar was a pirate to behold. Why, he woulda takin’ the free Google Books and found a way to pirate them, of that ye can be sure!

There be another colored-bearded fellow by the name of Blue Beard, whose pirate tale (oft labeled a “fairy tale” fer some reason, tho’ I’m hard-pressed to be finded any fairies in such a tale of delightful pirate horror) was written by a Frenchman, Charles Perrault, but told fer many a year before that. Ye can read the English version of Blue Beard as recorded on paper by Andrew Lang on page 290 of ‘is Blue Fairy Book.  Pirates and fairies… arrrrr, what a strange combination that be!

May yer Talk Like a Pirate Day be well-researched and may yer life be full o’ many Pirate adventures. And treasure.

Don’t ye be fergettin’ the treasure!