The Pirate Primer: Mastering the Language of Swashbucklers and Rogues »

George Choundas lives and works in New York City. Educated at Emory University, he is a corporate litigator and former FBI agent. The Pirate Primer was inspired by a trolley ride he and his wife took in Key West, Florida during which a coarse shop owner charged after the sightseers on foot, swinging a cutlass and screaming pirate epithets.

*Only comprehensive book on pirate language-there are other pirate dictionaries, but none covers grammar and syntax

*Perfect for pirate enthusiasts, eccentrics, fans of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, anyone interested in pop culture, and pirates

*September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day (a holiday invented in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers and later promoted by comedian Dave Barry)-fans of the holiday are sure to love this book

In the history of the world, there has never been a comprehensive book on the pirate language. The Pirate Primer is the first and only. The book explores in a definitive way the unique vernacular of English-speaking pirates covering vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar and syntax.

This is the authoritative work on the subject, containing and explicating every distinctive term, phrase, usage, and speech structure uttered by or attributed to pirates in film, television, literature, and historical accounts over the last three centuries. Every entry in the Primer is accompanied by an illustrative historical example of pirate speech or dialogue. Thus, the user sees the contents of the Primer deployed in actual context by actual pirates. This use of excerpts mobilizes the same instructional benefits of the immersion method considered so effective in foreign-language training. However, it also serves to remind the user that the pirate language is, always and most importantly, a way to tell stories about pirates and about ourselves.