Oct 03, 2023
Time for the new puzzler. Here you go.
Back in the day, a long time ago, when the British were colonizing the rest of the world, one of their territories was India. They colonized the whole world but India was one of the last places that they relinquished.
At that time, British upper-crust people would travel by boat, because that was the only mode of transportation, from England to their colony in India. And when they would buy their tickets on this huge boat, they would demand a certain type of stateroom for the voyage. They would demand this of the ticket agents.
And those who were in the know always insisted on having a compartment that was on the left or port side of the ship on the way to India. But on the return trip, on the way back, they would demand to be on the other side of the ship. The starboard or right side.
So, out of this strange travel request, a word was invented.
When they left England they wanted to travel on the port side as they went out of England, and as they came home, they wanted to travel on the starboard or the right side.
So, what word was invented by this travel request, and why?
Okay answer time.
When upper crust British people would travel from England to India, they wanted to travel on the port side as they went out of England, and as they came home, they wanted to travel on the starboard or the right side.
What word was created due to this request? And why?
Well, it had to do with the sun coming in the cabin in the mornings are heating things up. So they requested the port side on the way, and the starboard side on the way back, so the cabin would be cooler.
And the word that was created was this.
Posh.
Port out, starboard home. P.O.S.H.
And the travel agent would write this by their reservation. And it became a word that meant, rich upper crust people.
Good one.
