1) Long John Silver is a bad guy (I think; Owen and I haven't finished reading it, but we're agreed in the general plot direction).
2) Fo'c'sle: One of those words I've spent decades avoiding having to pronounce. Words with two apostrophes challenge me—they seem to say, "Yes, I'm a word so familiar, so well-worn, that I've been abbreviated not once, but twice. Yet, dear reader, you are somehow entirely ignorant of the rich literary and cultural tradition underlying my ridiculous spelling." I went with Foke-sul. Sounds good; no idea if that's correct though. At least Nor'wester has only one apostrophe. But it hasn't come up in this book. Nor does it have two apostrophes. You can lay to that.
3) "lay to," as in "You can lay to that": Too much of this, particularly from Silver. It's contagious.
4) Treasure Island itself: wasn't that it at Disneyland, across from Pirates of the Caribbean? I've looked at a couple of online Disneyland maps and it looks like that body of water is in Frontierland, and the island is called "Tom Sawyer Island." So, no.
5) Dr. Livesey. LIVE-SEE? No—I went with "Liv ESS ee." But only after saying "LIVE SEE" a couple of times and slowly coming to realize that's stupid.
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