Arr, me hearties! Speak Like a Pirate Day it do be. But did you consider that part of being piractical might be to wander down to your local debating forum and engage in recreational parliamentary practice? I thought not. Neither did I. And yet, so the nice filks at Wordsmith tell us, the word “filibuster” originally meant a pirate. The origins are in the Spanish word, “filibustero” with related words in French (“flibustier”) and Dutch (“vrijbuiter”), which of course finally gets us back to “freebooter”. More details here, but read it today because that page gets updated every day.

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