Ahoy, ye landlubbers!

This episode, Teia and Cher test out terrible pirate accents that would send them straight to Davy Jones’ locker, do some pirate mythbusting, and sail the seven seas in an exploration of pirate linguistics. Of course, we also pay our must needed homage to the iconic Zheng Yi Sao, and delve into the depths of East Asian thalassocratic piracy.

Teia’s word of the day: Scuttlebutt, /ˈskʌtəlbʌt/

Noun: a cask of drinking water; slang for gossip. Definition by Wikipedia

Sources for this episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Yi_Sao

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