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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: Seeking origin of 'posh'
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Date: Sat, 20-Apr-85 00:54:14 EST
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I also read the "port out, starboard home" in a book, but I happen to
remember which book [I don't know why!]: it was one of the Three
Investigators mysteries, by Robert Arthur.  This was the one with the
rhyming slang ("the bottle and stopper point the way" "the lady from
Bristol rides from a friend" "in the posh queen's Old Ned") ... I also
remember a harrowing scene with a houseboat, but for all the fragments
I remember, I've forgotten the title!

Sigh.

O well... does anyone know how reliable Arthur's etymology of "posh" was?
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