Michael Quinion 写的《Port Out, Starboard Home》是一本很棒的关于“民间词源学”的书，讲了这些还有很多其他词。只要有据可考，作者都会给出真正的起源。
"Port Out, Starboard Home" by Michael Quinion is a nice book about 'folk etymologies' that covers these and many more. He gives the real origin where it's known.
……以前在报纸和小报周刊上开专栏，经常提到在二战甚至一战之前，英语里的首字母缩略词（acronym）其实相当罕见，所以牵扯到缩略词的民间词源（比如“to insure promptness”变成 tip，“port out starboard home”变成 posh 等等）几乎全都是假的。更关键的是，主楼文章（TFA）列出了各种证据，证明这个特定说法不太可能成立。
…that used to run in papers and alt weeklies, used to perennially comment that acronyms in English were quite rare until roughly WW1-WW2, and as such etymologies involving them ("to insure promptness", "port out starboard home", etc.) are virtually always false. More to the point, TFA lays out various evidence why this particular theory is unlikely.
One of those lemmata casts doubt on the veracity of "Port Out, Starboard Home." I also enjoyed the dual meanings of pot-walloper, similar to "cutting coupons" shifting semantics at opposite ends of the NRS social grades.
Michael Quinion 写的《Port Out, Starboard Home》是一本很棒的关于“民间词源学”的书，讲了这些还有很多其他词。只要有据可考，作者都会给出真正的起源。
"Port Out, Starboard Home" by Michael Quinion is a nice book about 'folk etymologies' that covers these and many more. He gives the real origin where it's known.
……以前在报纸和小报周刊上开专栏，经常提到在二战甚至一战之前，英语里的首字母缩略词（acronym）其实相当罕见，所以牵扯到缩略词的民间词源（比如“to insure promptness”变成 tip，“port out starboard home”变成 posh 等等）几乎全都是假的。更关键的是，主楼文章（TFA）列出了各种证据，证明这个特定说法不太可能成立。
…that used to run in papers and alt weeklies, used to perennially comment that acronyms in English were quite rare until roughly WW1-WW2, and as such etymologies involving them ("to insure promptness", "port out starboard home", etc.) are virtually always false. More to the point, TFA lays out various evidence why this particular theory is unlikely.
其中一个词条对“Port Out, Starboard Home”的真实性提出了质疑。我也很喜欢 pot-walloper 的双重含义，就像“剪优惠券”（cutting coupons）在 NRS 社会阶层划分的两极会呈现完全不同的语义一样。
One of those lemmata casts doubt on the veracity of "Port Out, Starboard Home." I also enjoyed the dual meanings of pot-walloper, similar to "cutting coupons" shifting semantics at opposite ends of the NRS social grades.