On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:04:52 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:



How did 17th and 18th century pirates talk? Pretty much like common
folks in any coastal town or village of the era would talk. The
nautical terms in their vocabulary would be little or no different
than the nautical terms in the vocabulary of any seaman- merchant,
Navy, pirate, or "privateer".

Arrr!