[POSH} Translation from English to American, Please?

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 6144

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Pam Scruton" <Pam at b...> wrote:

> The word Posh is commonly believed to have originally been an 
> acronym for Port Over Starboard Home (snip)
> [not] a more reasonable explanation than the one suggesting the 
> word is a contraction of 'polish' - polished manners, polished 
> English accents and grammar.

Radio show "Says You" (a kind of cross between "My Word" and 
"Information, Please") http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/radio/saysyou/ just 
said that POSH comes from a Middle Eastern word 'pash' meaning 'half' 
which was the name of a small coin and went into English slang as 
meaning 'coin', thus POSH to mean 'rich'. Not all the correct 
(winning) answers on Says You are correct! Last year they accepted 
Port Outbound Starboard Home because of the nicer view.