Port Out, Starboard Home

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Quinion, Michael (2005). Port Out, Starboard Home: And Other Language Myths. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-101223-4. ; published in the US as POSH — • Port Out Starboard Home • Prevention of Sexual Harassment … Maritime acronyms and abbreviations 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 dictionary Port and starboard unambiguously refer to the left and right side of the vessel, not the observer. That is, the port side of the vessel always refers to the same portion of the vessel's structure, and does not depend on which way the observer is facing.

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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. 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] Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present provided Henley with material for his extra-ordinary translations of Villon:

Morton, Harry (January 1, 1983). The Whale's Wake. University of Hawaii Press. p.84. ISBN 9780824808303 . Retrieved March 20, 2020– via Google Books.Port Out, Starboard Home — (or Port Outward, Starboard Home) is a phrase popularly believed to provide the etymology for the word . According to this belief, Port Out and Starboard Home were the most desirable cabin locations on ships traveling to and from British colonies … Wikipedia Grape, Wolfgang (1994). The Bayeux Tapestry: Monument to a Norman Triumph. Art and Design Series. Munich, DEU: Prestel. p. 95. ISBN 978-3791313658 . Retrieved February 2, 2017. 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. Port and starboard are traditional nautical terms, which are also represented by the colours red and green respectively.