Pirate-Speak

Today is Talk Like A Pirate Day, a silly day devoted to.....talking like a pirate!  In honor of the event, I decided to have some fun with an English-to-Pirate translator.  

The translator was easy to use.  You just type words in the box, hit the AHOY button, and check out the result.  The hardest part of the task was figuring out what my pirate should say.  I wanted something absurd and pointless, so I decided to use the first sentence of a spam blog comment I received earlier today.  The sentence read: 

What most people don't know is that plumbers get their name from the type of material that was used to make water and sewage pipes in ancient times - plumbum, which is the Latin word for lead.

And the same thing in pirate-speak:

What most people don't know be that plumbers get their name from t' type o' material that was used t' make water and sewage pipes in ancient times - plumbum, which is t' Latin word for lead.

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