It is interesting how one can shuffle through life thinking one thing, when it's actually quite another! For a couple of hours during my Pirate tour this morning in Charleston, I was deleting old inaccurate information in my head, and replacing with accurate facts instead. For example, how many of you folks out there today are celebrating "International Talk Like a Pirate Day," and are thinking the word, "aaarh" is part of the pirate lexicon? I know I did!
Fortunately, Eric, the pirate tour guide today, is an actual walking talking encyclopedia of pirate knowledge. He has friends, who write books on the subject, or are scholars who write papers. And, Eric had to set me straight!
As we walked the streets of old town Charleston, and the waterfront, Eric explained we can blame Hollywood for the utterance, "aaarh," in our present day consciousness. . .BUT, it really should be, "YAR."
It seems that in the old Treasure Island movie, with Wallace Beery playing Long John Silver, Beery mispronounced "yar," and it has been perpetuated since.
Eric talks about the life and times of Blackbeard, as if they were close buddies - Dates, places, events. All in a colorful entertaining way, which educates as you are riveted.
If any of you should ever visit Charleston, I HIGHLY recommend the Charleston Pirate Tour, especially if you get Eric as your tour guide. For a solid two hours he spit out facts, information, dates, and places of who was where, what they were doing, and what their ultimate fate was. The inter-connection of pirates, privateers, politicians and the power elite, all part of the slurry. Almost like our country today!
Yar, I want to wish each and every one of you a very merry "International Talk Like a Pirate Day." Here's a few pictures taken during the tour:
Eric the Pirate, his wife and parrot
Eric, The Pirate Guide
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