С удовольствием поставил бы Пайпсу лишний минус, но свидетельства Википедии не сильно надежны. Ссылка на Оксфордский словарь ничего не опровергает и не доказывает.
It also panders to the popular craving for the employment of acronyms as the explanation of common phrases - golf ('gentlemen only, ladies forbidden'), cop ('constable on patrol') etc. These are nonsense but they keep cropping up. It's worth remembering that acronyms are a 20th century phenomenon and researchers are hard pressed to find any examples before the 1920s. The word acronym itself wasn't coined until the 1940s. Any such explanation of older words, like 'golf', or indeed 'posh', is sure to be false.
звучит красиво,
Date: 2011-02-06 08:11 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip_(gratuity)
Re: звучит красиво,
Date: 2011-02-06 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-06 09:07 pm (UTC)какому из этимологических словарей вы доверяли бы?
no subject
Date: 2011-02-07 01:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-07 08:44 am (UTC)http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/port%20out%20starboard%20home.html