Thread: Thar be Pirates

A surgeon.........on a pirate ship............the mind boggles when I think of the standard of care an injured member of the ships crew would receive.

Pyrates was the spelling from the original chronicles in 16th century.

I like it , so will continue using it.

Originally Posted by digger

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Robert Louis Stevenson , Daniel Defoe and Gilbert & Sullivan are the main contributors to the rampaging , swashbuckling , frivolous presentation of pyrate life.

It is fun though and if you saw Pirates of Penzance starring John English you know what I mean. If you haven't seen Pirates of Penzance do it!

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

Pyrates was the spelling from the original chronicles in 16th century.

I like it , so will continue using it.

Reminds me of pyrite, or fool's gold!!


https://www.google.com.au/webhp'sour...TF-8#q=pyrites

yeah.....my spellchecker keeps trying to write pyrites.

According to Mr Oxford, Shakespeare used "Pyrates" - but you have to remember that it was not his usage that was printed but that of the printer or, indeed the typesetter (alternative spelling was commonly used to justify lines of type until the late seventeenth century, and it is not uncommon to find different spellings for the same word on the same page; "y" is wider than "i"). English spelling was not stabilised until around the beginning of the eighteenth century, so that to refer to this spelling as "original" is probably a bit of a stretch. Particularly since the English word is a direct copy of the Latin "pirata"; and Latin does not use "y".

John

Well , Pyrates was being used long before Shakespeare was alive.

Well, just to confuse the issue, a book titled " A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates" was published in 1724 , the author is generally thought to be Daniel Defoe, writing under a pseudo-nym. Bob