

We have seen no tickets stamped with POSH we've found no magazine articles talking about this fashionable mode of travel.

The Old English bicce comes from even older root words that all mean the same thing: a female dog. It's not that we don't like this etymology-it's that we have no evidence for it. Origin: Old English bicce, of Germanic origin. ‘Totalus’ is a loose reworking of ‘totalis’, which, once again, is Latin, meaning ‘total’ or ‘entire’. ‘Ficus’ is a Latin suffix which denotes ‘making’ or ‘doing’ something. And it's an acronym! Who doesn't love an acronym! Great story! But that's all it appears to be. First, we have ‘Petra’, which is derived from ‘petros’, which means ‘rock’ in Greek. As the story winds its path from the beat reporter (assuming these even exist any more) through to editor through to the 'printing presses', this is the name it is referenced by, e.g., 'Have you fixed those errors in the kate-and-william story'. Its an informal name given to a story during the production process. Having crossed the neighboring land-called Italy from this (for the Tyrrheni called a bull an italos)-it came to the field of. The term slug comes from the world of newspaper production. One bull broke away (aporregnusi) from Rhegium, and quickly fell into the sea and swam to Sicily. It's tidy, it's historical, and it conjures up pictures of women in bustles and skirts swooning onboard ships. Italia (Italy) may come from an Etruscan word for a bull: ' Heracles went through Tyrrhenia Greek name for Etruria. Not because I had taken a vaccine, but because I’m the introverted type, and I don’t want to risk something unexpected spilling from my mouth. It was an ailment I thought I was immune from. These luxury tickets were supposedly stamped with the letters POSH: posh. can also be blessgo, lashgo, leshgo or any combination of too many s’s or too many o’s. 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.
