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From: muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy)
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Subject: Re: Seeking origin of 'posh'
Message-ID: <558@lll-crg.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 10:20:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 10:20:36 1985
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In article <5043@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>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?
>-- 
>In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251)
>UUCP:	{seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!chris
>CSNet:	chris@umcp-cs		ARPA:	chris@maryland


Yes!  This would be where I read it as well.  The title is "The Mystery
of the Dead Man's Riddle."

                             Muffy