547: Posh Jun 7, 2016

Folk-etymology, or made-up etymology often involves stories that do not have any hard evidence to support it, but are logical enough to fly under the radar sometimes. The exact derivation of 'posh' is unknown and this leaves room for people to swoop in and supply their own. Depending upon where one searches, it is possible to find something saying that 'posh' is an acronym for "port out starboard home", the story being that this denotes the use of the preferable accommodations sailing back and forth England to India as to escape the heat of the sun. Nevertheless, however fun the story is, nothing backs it up as true.