Ahoy
Y’know what day it is, today, don’t ye? If ye be needin’ a little reminderrr, take a gander at yonder tubes:
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Even Google gets on the bandwagon – er, bandsloop. Barquewagon? Bandgalleon?
I did not lecture in Piratespeak in class today, but I should’ve.

You know the English proficiency test that all students applying to Journalism have to take? Well, I will never forget what a “sloop” is for the rest of my life, because it was on the test!! I am not nautically inclined, so I guessed. Yarr.
I know what a sloop is because I played a lot of Sid Meier’s Pirates when I was a dip student.