Posh

[fas64]

Last year we sailed the Adventure San Juan to Malaga we sailed Port side but we did not get the sun to much as it was at the Starboard side (South) all day

 

Well we have learned and this time we are on the Starboard side.

 

So after looking this up this is what I found, the word POSH comes from when the rich people sailed on ships from the UK to the USA

 

they sailed Port Out Starboard Home (POSH) so they got the sun all the time.

 

I must be a VIP or maybe just lucky that not to many POSH people are on this cruise. LOL

[papaflamingo]

"Oh the posh posh traveling life, the traveling life for me

First cabin and captain's table regal company"

[Missus Makkem]

Last year we sailed the Adventure San Juan to Malaga we sailed Port side but we did not get the sun to much as it was at the Starboard side (South) all day

 

Well we have learned and this time we are on the Starboard side.

 

So after looking this up this is what I found, the word POSH comes from when the rich people sailed on ships from the UK to the USA

 

they sailed Port Out Starboard Home (POSH) so they got the sun all the time.

 

I must be a VIP or maybe just lucky that not to many POSH people are on this cruise. LOL

 

not quite true, the POSH came from when ships went out to India particularly when the army was there in Victorias time and the voyage on sailing ships was long they wanted to be cool so PO out was no sun and SH was no sun also on the homeward journey.

[NorbertsNiece]

"Oh the posh posh traveling life, the traveling life for me

First cabin and captain's table regal company"

 

You got in there before me..... ;)

 

Whenever I'm bored I travel abroad but ever so properly

Port out, starboard home, posh with a capital P-O-S-H, posh

[Missus Makkem]

You got in there before me..... ;)

 

Whenever I'm bored I travel abroad but ever so properly

Port out, starboard home, posh with a capital P-O-S-H, posh

 

Ah they lovely Lionel Jeffrey, can hear him singing it as I type.

[fas64]

I stand to be corrected. But I like the sun so for me it's Port Out going west and Starboard Home going east. I still fell POSH,,,,,, LOL:)

[NorbertsNiece]

Ah they lovely Lionel Jeffrey, can hear him singing it as I type.

 

You can't not hear him sing it..... undeniably inextricable!!!

Did you know Ian Fleming (THAT Ian Fleming) wrote the book?

[rednancy1]

I thought the people were sailing from the UK to India that the phrase POSH originated.:)

[Missus Makkem]

I thought the people were sailing from the UK to India that the phrase POSH originated.:)

just what I said!

[Missus Makkem]

You can't not hear him sing it..... undeniably inextricable!!!

Did you know Ian Fleming (THAT Ian Fleming) wrote the book?

 

Yes...but then I do play way tooo much trivia whilst sailing:D

[Freeway1]

World English Dictionary

posh (pɒʃ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]

 

— adj

1. smart, elegant, or fashionable; exclusive: posh clothes

2. upper-class or genteel

 

— adv

3. in a manner associated with the upper class: to talk posh

 

[C19: often said to be an acronym of the phrase port out, starboard home, the most desirable location for a cabin in British ships sailing to and from the East, being the north-facing or shaded side; but more likely to be a development of obsolete slang posh a dandy]

[fas64]

Ok I am wrong, but who wants to sail in the shade. So for me the new POSH is east- west and west -east and so I am POSH