Argh ye lubbers! Sitting here watching pirate movies since I can"t go out because of the foul weather. Just picked a tape at random and on it is Space Pirate Captain Harlock " The Sphinx Grave Post". Prophetic, no?
Weird. I misspelled Harlock but the auto correct picked up and corrected it for me. That says something about the character when your spell checker knows who he is!
We have character actor Robert Newton to thank for this. His dialect used in films like Blackbeard The Pirate and Long John Silver and the TV series The Adventures of Long John Silver popularized the use of such sayings. A toast then to ye Robert wherever ye be!