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In English, there's an archaic "larboard" meaning "port side". My understanding is that this word was intentionally banished due to confusion originating from
by CWuestefeld 4y ago
In English, there's an archaic "larboard" meaning "port side". My understanding is that this word was intentionally banished due to confusion originating from the sound being so similar to "starboard".
- red-iron-pine 4y agoMakes good sense. Imagine trying to scream that to someone at night in a storm after you've both had a ration of rum. Probably a non-trivial number of people were hurt or killed because of that linguistic similarity; we see the same with air traffic control and pilots using ambiguous language.
- tropicaljacket 4y agothis is mentioned in the linked article