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Thread #83816   Message #1542923
Posted By: Le Scaramouche
16-Aug-05 - 04:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: Old expressions explained
Subject: RE: BS: Old expressions explained
Actualy, Amos, you have to prove the blue-blood theory.

Nobody quite knows the origin of posh. The Port Out, Starboard Home has been shown to be false. A more likely theory is that it comes from Romani for money.

Doolaly is because soldiers stationed in the town of Deolal were driven mad by sunstroke.