Pirate Stories: How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long and David Shannon Pirate Pete's Talk Like a Pirate by Kim Kennedy and Doug Kennedy Shiver Me Letters, A Pirate ABC by June Sobel and Henry Cole
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Pirate speech words: L sound: initial lads Land Ho! landlubber loot medial island jolly pillage Polly want a cracker scalawags clusters swashbuckler blimey Blow me down plank plunder doubloon flag
| SH sound: initial ship shipwreck Shiver me timbers! shore
CH sound: initial chest final hatch eye patch
DG sound Jolly Roger
| R sound: initial Rope postvocalic ar- Argh! Hearties! Har de har har! parrot air- bury merry or- shore Overboard! er- beard plunder timbers yonder overboard anchor
uhr- marooned
clusters crew crossbones grog Treasure!
| S sound: initial sail sea seadog Surrender!
cluster Avast there me hearties! chest hoist scurvy dog scuttled storm swab the decks
| Bilabial sounds Batten the hatches! boot buccaneer Man overboard! map mast matey me Me hearties! parrot patch pieces of eight
| Velar/back sounds heave ho hook high seas hoist the mainsail Yo ho ho! Hey ho! Ahoy three! Aye! aye aye captain ye
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| Fricative Sounds Feed him to the fishes!
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Pirate songs & chants
Hey ho ! Blow the man down!
I'm a pirate, that I be! I sail my ship upon the sea! I stay up late, 'till half past three! And that's a peg below my knee!
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