Believe it or not there is a such thing as “talk like a pirate” day. It just so happens that it is today; September 19th. This is the day that everyone is encouraged to talk like a pirate. This special pirate holiday started back in 1995 and it occurrs every September 19th.

A pirate is a criminal that use to rob other ships on the high seas of all their precious cargo. We really don’t think of pirates still existing, but they do. In 2008 off the coast of Somalia there were 95 sea attacks blamed on pirates. It is believed that these pirates made around $30 million dollars in ransoms that got paid to them. We also have another modern day pirate and that is someone that steals information over the Internet and makes illegal copies of it. The baseball team Pittsburgh Pirates do not get their name from the modern day pirates and their piracy is based on the pirates of story book legends and in the past. Blackbeard and his gold is one of the most famous pirate stories and legends on the high seas. People are still searching for some of the suspected treasures that Blackbeard has believed to hidden or his ship sank to the bottom of the ocean with.

I wish all the pirates out there a Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day and don’t forget to go back to your regular voices tomorrow!