OK be nice!!!!!
#31
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Originally Posted by Heart of gold
Khan Pm'd me yesterday and said that the offer to take me out for a Korma still stands ... Sweet huh!!!
#32
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Originally Posted by Heart of gold
Coffee, thats a girly thing isnt it Joe?
#33
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Originally Posted by novita77
Saw the pic... the hotel looks so posh...
#34
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Originally Posted by Truth Speak
Karma going for the first person who can tell me where the acronym posh comes from!!!
#35
Re: OK be nice!!!!!
Originally Posted by Truth Speak
Karma going for the first person who can tell me where the acronym posh comes from!!!
#36
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Originally Posted by joseph.creative
the Spice Girls....
#37
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Originally Posted by Truth Speak
Lol - but you are wrong !!
#38
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Originally Posted by joseph.creative
think that deserves something for the lateral thinking .....
Instead, it is thought that posh comes from the earlier posh "dandy" (from around 1890), which in some versions was written push.* It is most likely to have derived from posh, a Romany word meaning "half".* Posh karoon meant "half-a-crown" (a quarter of a gold sovereign) and posh itself meant "halfpenny".* From these meanings posh came to mean simply "money" and thence our current usage.
....but that is just a stab in the dark....
#39
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Originally Posted by Truth Speak
Karma going for the first person who can tell me where the acronym posh comes from!!!
#40
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Originally Posted by joseph.creative
i have a feeling that it could be this.... There is a widely-held believe that the word is an acronym formed from Port Outward, Starboard Home, which refers to the location of the most expensive accommodations aboard ships traveling between England and India.* Such accommodations were said to be more expensive because they were cooler due to receiving less direct sunlight.* Some versions of this etymology even include details of the pink labels reading P.O.S.H. which were pasted onto steamer trunks by the Pacific and Orient shipping line.* Unfortunately for this story, the P & O line has denied all knowledge of such a practice and the explanation in general has never been substantiated.
Instead, it is thought that posh comes from the earlier posh "dandy" (from around 1890), which in some versions was written push.* It is most likely to have derived from posh, a Romany word meaning "half".* Posh karoon meant "half-a-crown" (a quarter of a gold sovereign) and posh itself meant "halfpenny".* From these meanings posh came to mean simply "money" and thence our current usage.
....but that is just a stab in the dark....
Instead, it is thought that posh comes from the earlier posh "dandy" (from around 1890), which in some versions was written push.* It is most likely to have derived from posh, a Romany word meaning "half".* Posh karoon meant "half-a-crown" (a quarter of a gold sovereign) and posh itself meant "halfpenny".* From these meanings posh came to mean simply "money" and thence our current usage.
....but that is just a stab in the dark....
#41
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Originally Posted by novita77
Joe... you should work as an english literature lecturer!
#42
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i have a feeling that it could be this.... There is a widely-held believe that the word is an acronym formed from Port Outward, Starboard Home, which refers to the location of the most expensive accommodations aboard ships traveling between England and India.* Such accommodations were said to be more expensive because they were cooler due to receiving less direct sunlight.* Some versions of this etymology even include details of the pink labels reading P.O.S.H. which were pasted onto steamer trunks by the Pacific and Orient shipping line.* Unfortunately for this story, the P & O line has denied all knowledge of such a practice and the explanation in general has never been substantiated.
#43
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Originally Posted by kristy
Is it shipping related??
#44
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Originally Posted by joseph.creative
i have a feeling that it could be this.... There is a widely-held believe that the word is an acronym formed from Port Outward, Starboard Home, which refers to the location of the most expensive accommodations aboard ships traveling between England and India.* Such accommodations were said to be more expensive because they were cooler due to receiving less direct sunlight.* Some versions of this etymology even include details of the pink labels reading P.O.S.H. which were pasted onto steamer trunks by the Pacific and Orient shipping line.* Unfortunately for this story, the P & O line has denied all knowledge of such a practice and the explanation in general has never been substantiated.
Instead, it is thought that posh comes from the earlier posh "dandy" (from around 1890), which in some versions was written push.* It is most likely to have derived from posh, a Romany word meaning "half".* Posh karoon meant "half-a-crown" (a quarter of a gold sovereign) and posh itself meant "halfpenny".* From these meanings posh came to mean simply "money" and thence our current usage.
....but that is just a stab in the dark....
Instead, it is thought that posh comes from the earlier posh "dandy" (from around 1890), which in some versions was written push.* It is most likely to have derived from posh, a Romany word meaning "half".* Posh karoon meant "half-a-crown" (a quarter of a gold sovereign) and posh itself meant "halfpenny".* From these meanings posh came to mean simply "money" and thence our current usage.
....but that is just a stab in the dark....
#45
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Originally Posted by kristy
Google's a fabulous thing isn't it JC?