Port Out, Starboard Home

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Bennett, Joe (30 April 2012). "Everything you ever wanted to know about the word 'chav' ". Ideas Lab Predictor Podcast, University of Birmingham . Retrieved 2023-10-13. Quinion’s chatty and erudite book should sit nicely next to Fowler, Brewer and Partridge.” (Dianne Dempsey, The Age, Melbourne, 2 Oct. 2004.) The History of Yahoo! - How It All Started..." Yahoo.com. 2001. Archived from the original on 29 November 2001 . Retrieved 8 November 2015. Anatomical terms of location, another example of terms of directionality that do not depend on the location of the observer for things that are bilaterally symmetrical

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. 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 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 origins Vessels with bilateral symmetry have left and right halves which are mirror images of each other. One asymmetric feature is where access to a boat, ship, or aircraft is at the side, it is usually only on the port side (hence the name). Quinion, Michael (2005). Port Out, Starboard Home: And Other Language Myths. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-101223-4. ; published in the US asAdmiralty Circular No. 2, November 22, 1844, cited in Western Courier newspaper (Plymouth) December 11, 1844. Starboard’ derives from the Old English steorbord, which literally means the side from which the craft is steered – traditionally the right-hand side before ships had central rudders. a b NOS Staff (December 8, 2014). "Why Do Ships use "Port" and "Starboard" Instead of "Left" and "Right?" ". NOAA National Ocean Service (NOS) Ocean Facts. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) . Retrieved February 2, 2017– via OceanService.NOAA.gov.

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. US 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.Since the steering oar was on the right side of the boat, it would tie up at the wharf on the other side. Hence the left side was called port. [6] The Oxford English Dictionary cites port in this usage since 1543. [7] Whether he’s dealing with truth or tall tales, Quinion aims to provide the whole ball of wax, and as an etymologizer he more than cuts the mustard.” (Jan Freeman, Boston Globe, 10 Oct. 2004) 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.