--- title: Talk Like a Pirate Day 2014: Free Krispy Kreme Doughnuts description: September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day canonical: https://time.com/3403534/talk-like-a-pirate-day/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-19T14:27:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:19.662Z og:title: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Here's How to Talk Like a Pirate og:description: And get free Krispy Kreme doughnuts og:url: https://time.com/3403534/talk-like-a-pirate-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 19, 2014 2:27 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 19, 2014 2:27 PM UTC Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, an annual celebration that brings together all the swashbuckling scoundrels who set their Facebook languages to ‘English (Pirate),’ have closets full of costume eyepatches, pledge allegiance to the Jolly Roger or just want an excuse to walk around saying “Arrrrgh!” or order people to walk the plank. There are many ways for landlubbers to celebrate today without hitting the high seas – [Krispy Kreme is offering a free doughnut](http://www.krispykreme.com/Pirate) to anyone who talks like a pirate, and a dozen free doughnuts to those scallywags who show up in full pirate garb. (Need to brush up on your pirate parlance? [Here’s a helpful how-to](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/18/arrrggg-you-serious-how-to-truly-talk-like-a-pirate/).) After your free doughnuts, check out [this Google map](https://mapsengine.google.com/map/viewer?mid=zotVuAq09pWE.kMYqgYpT3vfA) of all the Talk Like A Pirate Day events around the world. From free mini golf to pirate-y pub crawls, there’s sure to be something that will shiver your timbers. And when your day of yo-ho-ho-ing is done, sit back with a bottle of rum and have a good laugh over these trending tweets about hypothetical [pirate TV shows](https://twitter.com/hashtag/PirateTVShows?src=tren): Magnum, P.I. (Pirate Investigator) [#PirateTVShows](https://twitter.com/hashtag/PirateTVShows?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) [@midnight](https://twitter.com/midnight?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) [@nerdist](https://twitter.com/nerdist?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) — Jonn McDaniel (@JonnMcDaniel) [September 19, 2014](https://twitter.com/JonnMcDaniel/status/512964365524287489?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) [@midnight](https://twitter.com/midnight?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) [#piratetvshows](https://twitter.com/hashtag/piratetvshows?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) AAARRRRRRR Is The New Black — scott marvel (@clumsy\_kaiju) [September 19, 2014](https://twitter.com/clumsy%5Fkaiju/status/512962771261325312?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) Greybeard's Anatomy [#piratetvshows](https://twitter.com/hashtag/piratetvshows?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) [@midnight](https://twitter.com/midnight?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) — Skreened (@skreened) [September 19, 2014](https://twitter.com/skreened/status/512963844843393024?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) Sabrina the Teenage Wench [#piratetvshows](https://twitter.com/hashtag/piratetvshows?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) [@midnight](https://twitter.com/midnight?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) — Heather Kershaw (@MrsHeatherK) [September 19, 2014](https://twitter.com/MrsHeatherK/status/512873958861840384?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3403534/talk-like-a-pirate-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3403534/talk-like-a-pirate-day/"},"headline":"Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!","datePublished":"2014-09-19T14:27:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:19.662Z","description":"Ahoy, mateys!","url":"https://time.com/3403534/talk-like-a-pirate-day/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Appreciation"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3403534/talk-like-a-pirate-day/","name":"Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!"}}]}] ```