Port Out, Starboard Home

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These and hundreds of other stories are commonly told and retold whenever people meet. They grow up in part because expressions are often genuinely mysterious. Why, for example, are satisfying meals 'square' rather than any other shape? And how did anyone ever come up with the idea that if you're competent at something you can 'cut the mustard'? 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.

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) port". Oxford English Dictionary (Onlineed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) Bump, Philip (August 2, 2013). "All the Silly Legislative Acronyms Congress Came Up with This Year". The Atlantic. Port and starboard are traditional nautical terms, which are also represented by the colours red and green respectively.Quinion’s chatty and erudite book should sit nicely next to Fowler, Brewer and Partridge.” (Dianne Dempsey, The Age, Melbourne, 2 Oct. 2004.) 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] Posh!" is an up tempo song and musical number from the popular 1968 Albert R. Broccoli motion picture, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It is written by the songwriting team of Sherman & Sherman. It makes reference to the myth that the word " posh" is an acronym for " Port Out, Starboard Home". In the film it is sung when "Grandpa Potts" (played by Lionel Jeffries) is being carried away in his outhouse. He sees the situation as serendipitous until he finally meets his kidnapper, Baron Bomburst in Vulgaria. P. 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. Admiralty Circular No. 2, November 22, 1844, cited in Western Courier newspaper (Plymouth) December 11, 1844.

That means that all coaching materials will now refer to port and starboard as standardised terminology, and the terms could eventually be written onto blade shafts across the country.NASA. "RADAR means: Radio Detection and Ranging". Nasa Explores. Archived from the original on 2004-01-28.

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 term starboard derives from the Old English steorbord, meaning the side on which the ship is steered. Before ships had rudders on their centrelines, they were steered with a steering oar at the stern of the ship on the right hand side of the ship, because more people are right-handed. [2] The "steer-board" etymology is shared by the German Steuerbord, Dutch stuurboord and Swedish styrbord, which gave rise to the French tribord, Italian tribordo, [a] Catalan estribord, Portuguese estibordo, Spanish estribor and Estonian tüürpoord. Port and starboard refer to directions on nautical vessels and aircraft. When facing the front of the vehicle, port refers to the left side, and starboard refers to the right side. To keep port and starboard straight, remember that sailors use stars to point them in the right direction after they have left port . Morton, Harry (January 1, 1983). The Whale's Wake. University of Hawaii Press. p.84. ISBN 9780824808303 . Retrieved March 20, 2020– via Google Books.Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present provided Henley with material for his extra-ordinary translations of Villon: a b RMG Staff (February 2, 2017). "Port and Starboard: Why do Sailors say 'Port' and 'Starboard', for "Left" and "Right?" ". Discover: Explore by Theme. Greenwich, England, UK: Royal Museums Greenwich. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 . Retrieved February 2, 2017– via RMG.co.uk.

POSH — Port Out Starboard Home (Governmental » Transportation) * Prevention Of Sexual Harassment (Governmental » Military) * Probability Of Severe Hail (Academic & Science » Meteorology) * Probability Of Severe Hail (Academic & Science » Ocean Science)… … Abbreviations dictionaryOliver Tearle is the author of The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of History , available now from Michael O’Mara Books. List of Onedin Line episodes — The Onedin Line episode list shows details of the 91 episodes of the BBC television series The Onedin Line. Contents 1 Series 1 2 Series 2 3 … Wikipedia 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]