On Nov 8, 8:05 pm, robert casey wrote:
Eeyore wrote:

You must have just discovered the word "PORT" it seems.

The word 'port' is only used by people who haven't a clue what it really is and
what to really call it.

No, it's used by people who prefer port to vermouth... :-)

And by the gin-and-pink drinkers too, as in POSH -- port out,
starboard home...

....out being India, home being England, and the side of the ship being
important because it will be in the shade.

Andre Jute

Andre Jute wrote:
On Nov 8, 8:05 pm, robert casey wrote:
Eeyore wrote:

You must have just discovered the word "PORT" it seems.
The word 'port' is only used by people who haven't a clue what it really is and
what to really call it.
No, it's used by people who prefer port to vermouth... :-)

And by the gin-and-pink drinkers too, as in POSH -- port out,
starboard home...

...out being India, home being England, and the side of the ship being
important because it will be in the shade.

False etymology.
And before the opening of the Suez Canal it would have been SOPH.

--
Eiron.