Port Out, Starboard Home by Michael Quinion

Port Out, Starboard Home

Michael Quinion

282 pages first pub 2000 (view editions)

nonfiction reference informative fast-paced
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Can it really be true that 'golf' stands for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'? Or that 'rule of thumb' comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod no thicker than his thumb? These and hundreds of ot...

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