Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. In case you missed it, Sunday afternoon I posted a short vocabulary of pirate expressions to aid your celebration. Today we celebrate more things nautical. Not one of my usual post, but then again I am always fascinated by words – for example, the expressions “cutty sark.”  Many folks are familiar with that word because of the brand of whiskey. Others might know that the expression has an earlier origin – the whiskey’s name inspired by the legendary clipper ship “Cutty Sark”

But did you know, the name of the ship was inspired from an even older source?