Ready! Player 31@lemmy.worldM to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoPort and starboardlemmy.worldimagemessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1499arrow-down126cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareUltraviolet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down2·edit-22 years agoPort was also initially Larboard, but it turns out when shouting a direction from the other side of a boat, having two similar sounding terms for opposite directions often results in crashing said boat, so it was changed in the mid 1800s.
Port was also initially Larboard, but it turns out when shouting a direction from the other side of a boat, having two similar sounding terms for opposite directions often results in crashing said boat, so it was changed in the mid 1800s.