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| (...) Right, and "to smoke-dry" or "to cure" is "boucaner". So one could call the Caribbean pirates from Hispanola the "Jerkys". :-) By the way, anyone interested in a good historical pirate book (other than _A General History of the Pyrates_, which (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) (sanctioned (...) seen (...) just (...) dhow, (...) to be (...) corsairs of (...) from (...) Arrrrrrr, Chance-Vought Corsairs tain't pyrates, ye lubberly comedian. Though now that I think about it, that was primarily a Marine fighter, wasn't (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) The ship type "corsair" is derived from the type of boat--a semi-militarised dhow, if I'm not mistaken--that the pyrate sort of Corsair would use. Later it was extended to other ship types used by such raiders. IIRC it's a motile (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Don't bother to look - you are correct on all accounts. "Corsair" is most often related to the Barbary pirates, but it also meant a privateer (sanctioned piracy - but again, usually associated with north african pirates). I've seen the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Corsairs were the pirates of the Mediterranean - specifically of the Barbary coast (what is now modern-day Libya). Buccaneers were a group of pirates that originated on Hispanola - but the term later became used in a general sense for (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Markus Wolf wrote in message ... (...) A most worthy and most helpful contribution to the might of the Brikish Empire. Now, I can distribute this list to my men, as a kind of 'Pyrate Recognition Manual', so that when they hear these telltale (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) production (...) I (...) soul (...) in (...) or "one (...) Aye, Thanks for the corrections. Sure and certain, I always thought Corsair were a type of ship, but Webster uses the word for both a ship and a pyrate. One quick question regarding me (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Arrrr, ye be violatin' the rules awready, ye lubber. This be 'im, Cap'n. Ye be conjugatin' the bloody verb. (...) Aye! Uh, nay, arrr, this be a trick question. (...) Aye-aye, Cap'n. (...) Tisn't! Always be argumentative-like. We pyrates be (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Alarm) (...) I understand what you mean. I just don't understand why they say Aaarrr all the time. I guess I read too much Charlie Brown. (...) as (...) replaced (...) stereotypical (...) As in Cap'n Crunch? And speaking of the world's (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) "No, not 'aargh,' it's 'aaaaaaarrrrrrr.'" (Not "ooo!" as in Surprise or Alarm) sorry, had to. (...) You may also want to note that "Captain" is usually said "Cap'n." Vowels in unstressed syllables tend to drop out in the debased Midlands that (...) (24 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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