A new MRIW idea
Jun. 15th, 2007 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
undyingkingI was thinking about starting off a new series of posts relating to Mo's Rather Interesting World of Exploded Folk Etymologies. The idea is that it will reveal the true origins of popular words and phrases which we generally think we know where they come from, but are wrong.
Unlike MRIWFSORD, this will be more of an interactive thing. So for this first one, I want you to say in a comment what you think is the origin of the word "posh". No looking it up, just off the top of your head. Or if you know of a theory but also know or believe it to be wrong, then say that and you can look clever. Or indeed if you'd like to invent a theory now for entertainment purposes, go for it.
Unlike MRIWFSORD, this will be more of an interactive thing. So for this first one, I want you to say in a comment what you think is the origin of the word "posh". No looking it up, just off the top of your head. Or if you know of a theory but also know or believe it to be wrong, then say that and you can look clever. Or indeed if you'd like to invent a theory now for entertainment purposes, go for it.
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Date: 2007-06-15 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-15 05:05 pm (UTC)Posh is, of course, from the Russian pozh, meaning a type of cabbage soup so refined in flavour (ie almost no cabbage) that only the richest people could afford it (being chiefly composed of water). This, interestingly, is also how homeopathy started.
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Date: 2007-06-16 03:05 pm (UTC)