Credo's Guide to Talking Like a Pirate

Unless you've been spending too much time in Davy Jones' locker, you know that National Talk Like A Pirate Day (September 19th) is approaching faster than the Black Pearl with a following wind. It's one thing to acknowledge buccaneers' affinity for things like arrr-gyle socks and aye-Phones, it's another to link land-lubbers to scholarly eResources in the process. Earlier this month we gave you posts for the entire month of September, but here are a few more tweet-sized pirate jokes with links to relevant Credo Topic Pages:  

What is a Pirate's favorite element on the periodic table? Arrrr-gon, symbol Ar http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/argon
What is the pirate's favorite animal phylum? Arrr-thropoda, which of course includes crustaceans http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/arthropoda
What policy does the pirate community endorse for reducing green house gas emissions? Carrrrr-bon Tax! http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/carbon_footprint
What do pirates do first when they encounter a circle in geometry class? They solve for RRRRRRRR http://bit.ly/1vpRD23
Why do Pirates take so long to learn the alphabet? They spend years at “C” http://bit.ly/1zKopbL Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!
How do Cartesian Pirates know they exist? They think therefore they arrrrrrrr http://bit.ly/VPKicE
Enjoying Talk Like a Pirate Day? We certainly arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrhttp://bit.ly/1zKopbL
Pirates’ favorite physicist? Planck, of course! http://bit.ly/1wHRokl Robert Hooke comes in a distant 2nd…
What did the pirate call those plotting against him? Avast Conspiracy! http://bit.ly/1AXfE0A

Images: Pirate Flag.svg, By Oren neu dag (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pirate_Flag.svg

Ghost Crab.jpg, By Harrison George, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghost_crab.jpg

Harvard Theatre Collection – Brocolini TCS 1.3651.jpg, By Mora, New York (photographer) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harvard_Theatre_Collection_-_Brocolini_TCS_1.3651.jpg

Pirate England.jpg,  Livre "The pirate ship 1660-1730", par Angus Konstam et Tony Brian, éditions Osprey, [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pirate_England.jpg