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As a child from our bookcase at home I remember a B- novel called :
'De Boekeniers.' For a long time I thought it had to do with 'boeken'(books). Later on I understood it was about pirats and that bucaneer was directly 'Dutchenized' to boekenier in the past.
A milder synonym for pirat/bucaneer in Dutch is zeeschuimer (sea skimmer).Are there more english synonyms?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted bucaneer JrzeeTomato 09/18/06 11:28 AM Re: bucaneer barryb 09/18/06 05:21 PM Re: bucaneer Bingley 09/19/06 06:07 AM Re: bucaneer BranShea 09/19/06 10:25 AM Re: bucaneer Buffalo Shrdlu 09/19/06 11:39 AM Re: bucaneer BranShea 09/19/06 12:16 PM Re: buccaneer Jackie 09/19/06 02:05 PM Re: buccaneer BranShea 09/20/06 10:04 AM Re: bucaneer FNAWrite 09/19/06 03:48 PM Re: bucaneer tsuwm 09/19/06 05:01 PM Re: bucaneer FNAWrite 09/19/06 06:58 PM Re: bucaneer Zed 09/19/06 10:46 PM Re: bucaneer BranShea 09/20/06 10:30 AM
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