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Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Are people around you spontaneously talking like pirates? Hold on to your eye patch! Today is "International Talk Like a Pirate Day"!

Sep 19, 2007 by jayfrankwilson
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  • What Is International Talk Like a Pirate Day?
  • Participating Websites
  • How to Change Your Facebook Language to “Pirate”:
  • Why September 19th?
  • Your Pirate Name
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Are people around you spontaneously talking like pirates? Have you noticed that several major websites like Flickr have added pirate flags to their logos? Hold on to your eye patch! Today is “International Talk Like a Pirate Day“!

What Is International Talk Like a Pirate Day?

The parody holiday “International Talk Like a Pirate Day” was invented in 1995 by John Baur (“Ol’ Chumbucket”) and Mark Summers (“Cap’n Slappy”), of the United States, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate. 

International Talk Like A Pirate Day
International Talk Like a Pirate Day

For example, an observer of the Talk Like A Pirate holiday would greet friends not with “Hello,” but with “Ahoy, me hearty!” Or a Pirate pick up line might be “I’d love to drop anchor in your lagoon.”

Participating Websites

Several major websites have made “Pirate” an official language in their interfaces. For example, both Google (link) and Facebook allow you to change your language settings to Pirate.

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The Google Search interface with “Pirate” selected as the language for the user.

And the photo sharing website, Flickr, even go in on the pirate fun.

Talk Like A Pirate Day

How to Change Your Facebook Language to “Pirate”:

If you want to change your preferred language in Facebook to “Pirate”, it’s a very easy process. Here’s how to do it:





  1. Log into your Facebook account.
  2. Click on the ENGLISH hyperlink at the bottom left-hand side of your screen.
  3. Select “English (pirate)” as your language option

Why September 19th?

International Pirate Day takes place every September 19th, but why? The date was selected because it was the birthday of Summers’ ex-wife and consequently would be easy for him to remember.

Your Pirate Name

If you were a pirate, what would your name be? Here’s a handy pirate name generator if you want to create a Pirate Name for yourself.

Some of writer’s names at MethodShop.com are Gout-Ridden Richards, Cap’n Collin No-Beard, Jonny Bloodsmear, Swishy Gia, Walt Poopdeck, and Bonnie Bloodbath.


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