Port Out, Starboard Home

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Acronym and initialism — For acronyms used on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Acronyms. Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial components in a phrase or name. These components may be individual letters (as in CEO) or parts of words (as in Benelux and … Wikipedia Port and starboard are terms used on nautical vessels and aircraft to refer to directions. When facing the front of the vessel, port refers to the left side, and starboard refers to the right side. Similarly, the distress signal SOS is often believed to be an abbreviation for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" but was chosen because it has a simple and unmistakable Morse code representation– three dots, three dashes, three dots, sent without any pauses between characters. [16] You’re with this friend, and you get talking about language, probably because one of you has just uttered some expression that you’ve never thought about before. Your friend tells you an interesting story about where the saying comes from.

POSH — • Port Out Starboard Home • Prevention of Sexual Harassment … Maritime acronyms and abbreviationsP. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), the great English humourist and writer, and creator of Jeeves and Wooster, used the word ‘push’ with much the same meaning as we nowadays use ‘posh’. In an early collection, Tales of St. Austin’s (1903), we find: ‘That waistcoat … being quite the most push thing of the sort in Cambridge.’ This term falls more or less bang in the middle between the earliest citation for ‘posh’ (a dandy: 1890) and ‘posh’ (the modern-day adjective we all know: 1914), thus strengthening the idea that the modern word derived from the late nineteenth-century slang term for a dandy. Administration, US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric. "Unlike left and right, port and starboard refer to fixed locations on a vessel". oceanservice.noaa.gov . Retrieved October 12, 2017. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link)

It is an undoubted fact that seafaring is the source of more false etymology than any other sphere. This can be attributed to the attractiveness of the romantic image of horny-handed sailors singing shanties and living a hearty and rough life at sea. After all, it sounds plausible that POSH means 'Port out, starboard home', but it doesn't. CANOE, the Committee to Ascribe a Naval Origin to Everything, doesn't really exist, but the number of these folk myths makes it seem as though they do. The debate has raged long and hard as to whether port and starboard should be the accepted terminology across the sport of rowing, but we can finally confirm that British Rowing will be adopting the terms across our official publications. To keep port and starboard straight, remember that sailors use stars to point them in the right direction after they have left port .Then, towards the end of the nineteenth century, an alternate meaning of ‘posh’ arose, again from that constant stream of living language, slang. Once again, this ‘posh’ was a noun rather than the more familiar adjective we use today, although, interestingly, this ‘posh’ referred to a dandy: a well-dressed, and often well-off, man about town. Among other sources, this ‘posh’ appears in the 1902 book Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, compiled by John S. Farmer and William Ernest Henley (the latter of whom was the author of the poem ‘ Invictus’ as well as the inspiration for the character Long John Silver). The port side is the side to the left of an observer aboard the vessel and facing the bow, towards the direction the vehicle is heading when underway. The starboard side is thus to the right of such an observer. [1]

AMBER Alert – America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response". Amberalert.gov. 2007-11-01. Archived from the original on 27 July 2010 . Retrieved 2010-07-08. Sheidlower, Jesse (2009). The F-Word. New York: Oxford University Press US. ISBN 978-0-19-539311-8. The History of Yahoo! - How It All Started..." Yahoo.com. 2001. Archived from the original on 29 November 2001 . Retrieved 8 November 2015. posh — [20] Although it only appeared as recently as the early 20th century, posh is one of the oldest chestnuts of English etymology. The story got around that it was an acronym for port out, starboard home, an allusion to the fact that wealthy… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word originsUS Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "Why do ships use 'port' and 'starboard' instead of 'left' and 'right?' ". oceanservice.noaa.gov . Retrieved March 9, 2020.