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To paraphrase somebody who's name I forget: most people would hide the fact that their father is a thief and murderer but brag that their great-grandfather was a pirate.
PS Welcome aboard Jrzee, me hearty!
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Carpal Tunnel
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Quote:
I had to look up Morisco; here's Onelook's quick def.:
(a.) Moresque.
(n.) A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language. (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture.
(This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.)
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Hy!Jackie! (which you must have heard a thousand times). 
I think Morisco is the Spanish way to say it and Moresque closer to French. The meaning is clear eather way. Let politicions have their wars over words (apoligies for this, regocnition demanded for that, on condition of etc.)Morisco , Moresque, it's Moors (an oldfashioned word anyway) who took the pirat ways, I mean the waters.
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JrzeeTomato is a great name! Very good.
And yes , I'm proud of my ancestors skimming the waves. One half was pirating while the other half was catching them. And I guess I would even have loved a father as buccaneer, if he were the Robin Hoodish sort of.
You know: "He stole from the rich, to give to the poor---- Robin Hood! Robin Hood! Roo--bin-- Hooood!"
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