Port Out, Starboard Home
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 other stories are commonly told and retold whenever people meet. They grow up in part because expressions are often genuinely mysterious. Why, for exa...
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 other stories are commonly told and retold whenever people meet. They grow up in part because expressions are often genuinely mysterious. Why, for exa...
