Thus, 'sesquipedaliophobia' is an irrational fear of words with many syllables. Here's what we have found: posh entered the English language early in the 1900s, in a wholly un-nautical context, to mean 'smart' and 'stylish.' Try though we might, we can't find any definitive information on its origins.īut if you find an old transoceanic ticket in your attic that's stamped 'POSH,' let us know. Sesquipedalian means having many syllables, and you'll probably know what phobia means. Shahuji, trying to make a dish called Amti, experimented with toor dal instead of moong dal and tamarind. If you read into the history of Sambar you will see that Sambar originated in the kitchen of Thanjavur Maratha ruler Shahuji. We have seen no tickets stamped with POSH we've found no magazine articles talking about this fashionable mode of travel. But is it really south Indian Never would you have thought that it may not be south Indian. It's not that we don't like this etymology-it's that we have no evidence for it. Perlesvaus purports to be a continuation of Perceval, although the details in Perlesvaus are so radically different from the rest of the Arthurian.

And it's an acronym! Who doesn't love an acronym! Great story! But that's all it appears to be. Perceval tells the story of Sir Perceval, one of Arthurs knights, in his quest to retrieve the Holy Grail and it is believed that this story is the first account of the quest for the Holy Grail. It's tidy, it's historical, and it conjures up pictures of women in bustles and skirts swooning onboard ships.

Elliott poem reading as follows 'In the end is our beginning. These luxury tickets were supposedly stamped with the letters POSH: posh. The text for the hymn comes from Sleeth's pondering the opposition of Spring and Winter, as well as the opposition in a line found in a T.S. She says the term 'schmooze' has been irreversibly harmed. Supposedly, 'posh' stands for 'port out, starboard home.' There's only one problem-we have no evidence to back that story up.įor those who don't know the story, here it is: on ocean voyages between Britain and India, the most desirable cabins-the ones that didn't get the afternoon heat-were on the port side out and on the starboard side home. The Etymology of the Schmooze Commentator Diana Boxer says the Jack Abramoff scandal has damaged more than the reputation of lobbyists.

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