What about frustrated pirates? I'm sure that's a common piratical emotion.

All right, let's clarify.

You say, "Arrrrrrrrr," when you're the pirate ordering someone to walk the plank.

You say, "Arrrrrrgh," when you're the pirate stepping off the plank.

I'll bet that pirates are difficult to interview and even more difficult to edit. And I wouldn't want to fact-check their copy.
This rule of thumb will help.
Thanks, John.

In a recent former life as Bluebeard, a retired pirate living on the Caribbean island called Treasure Island, wearing Hawaiian shirts and baggy shorts while sipping Maui-Mauis, both my crew and I debated the proper spelling and pronunciation of this verbal morsel of our daily diets.

More to the point, though, we took great pains to paint the proper, accurate picture of our lives of raids, pillaging and skulduggery on and adjacent to the high seas.

We are not difficult to interview, in fact we tend toward the loquacious, although you might not be allowed to return to your home to write about it, you scurvy dog.

For anyone finding one of the many bottles containing a written record of Bluebeard's adventures, rest assured that every statement is true, fact checked by the crew and copy edited by the Captain, himself, me.

Now, I'm back to living the good life underneath the tropical sun.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Captain Bluebeard
of the Clynmalira Players

But it's still "The Castle Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh," correct?

"I'll bet that pirates are difficult to interview and even more difficult to edit. And I wouldn't want to fact-check their copy. This rule of thumb will help."

Huh. Edit a Pirate and you won't have no thumbs, me bucko!

Oh. And why haven't Pirates written any of the great books?

It's tough when your alphabet is

Aiiiiiiiii
Eeeeeeeeeee
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

(Used to teach that to my junior sailing sudents to great effect).