Damn!

Or should I have said "Arrrgh"*?

From the blogosphere's Number One Pirate International Transnational Nationalist, I just learned that yesterday was International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

In an incredible coincidence (perhaps my pirate radar was on without my knowing it), I took this picture yesterday:

Go figure.

*

It has been speculated that the rolling "rrr" has been associated with pirates because of the location of major ports in the West Country of England, drawing labor from the surrounding countryside, West Country speech in general, and Cornish speech in particular, may have been a major influence on a generalized British nautical speech.