What's poopy about a poop deck? | NAUTICAL ETYMOLOGY 

Rob here! Two things: 1) I suggested the poop deck was at the bow of the ship. It's at the stern. 2) I keep saying "boat" when naval types will point out it should be "ship". Apologies. Three strikes, and I be walking the plank.

The POOP DECK is the deck at the STERN of the ship. The deck in the front is the fo'castle (Fore Castle) the elevated portion of the deck at the bow.

Every time Rob says boat when he means ship hundreds of sailors are shouting at the screen!

Hilarious watching Rob blush as he explained the current meaning of "to roger".

Doing the parrot voice was the right choice in my opinion.

There are so many more ... Three square meals a day - British sailors ate their meals off square wooden trays. Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey - cannon balls were stored on brass monkeys, brass and iron contract at different rates as the temperature drops. Flotsam and Jetsam - Flotsam: debris from a shipwreck Jetsam: debris deliberately jettisoned. In the Doldrums - the area of sea close to the equator where often the wind is lacking -ships are often "be stilled". Pipe down - Signal from the boson's pipe for the sailors to retire below decks to their hammocks.

The directional line on a nautical compass is called the "lubber line."

Rob we still say “toe the line” in the military today - usually at 4am when you just want to sleep.

My favorite is "leeway" -- the allowance a navigator must make because the wind will push the boat off its point of sail towards the leeward (downwind) side. Thus you must set a point of sail more upwind to actually hit your mark, and the correction you make to your point of sail is called leeway.

Saying you went to uni with Tom Scott is an excellent namedrop!

Fore and aft are directional. Bow and stern relate to the physical part of the ship that is there. Hope that makes sense

You left out the Head. Sailors going to the head, were going to the most forward part of the ship to relieve themselves. The poop is the deck above a cabin, which is generally at the rear. A quick Google search says it comes from the French La Poupe or stern. Another cabin on old ships was in the crews quarters in the forecastle (pronounced foc'sle and is all the way forward. To go to the head is to climb over the foc'sle into the chains where flushing sprays of seawater are quite regularly experienced. Bear in mind there was no toilet paper in those days:)

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but the word 'leeway' meaning to give someone a certain amount of freedom, apparantly comes from the nautical term 'leeway' meaning heo drift of a ship away from the wind, or leeward.

In Spanish a 'corsario' is someone who carried a 'patente de corso', which is the letter that showed they had authorization to act as a privateer. In English I think the 'patente de corso' is called a called 'letter of marque'

Rob!! I wanted to tell you how I’m enjoying this series just as much as I enjoy Robwords. These videos are just so much fun for a person like myself who was once a Radio DJ, and HAD to be funny on the air! It was my job to play the current hits, but there were a dozen signals that found their way into the market where I was the #1 Josh Dickey in the “afternoon drive” time slot. In fact, the ratings showed that for every listener my competition had, I HAD TWO! In order to pull off a feat like that, one cannot merely play current records. Being good with the language was rather vital, and YOU are out to beat the other stations when there were multiple other stations playing EXACTLY THE SAME MUSIC AS I WAS! Therefore, your facility with the language had everything to do with whether YOU won in the ratings. So, to be able to sound clever on the air, the better you were with the language, the better chance YOU had to be funnier than the next guy. And it was always fun to pretend there was a picture the audience could see (“Oh…I wanted to show you this…” as though you actually could. Silly and fun. By keeping it a mystery as to what was going to happen next, it made the whole thing MUCH more fun for both myself and my listeners!

My favorite unexpectedly nautical etymology is the Afrikaans word for kitchen, kombuis. It's the Dutch word for galley. The theory is that Europeans who learned Dutch on ships on their way to Cape Town came to know the place where the food is made as the "kombuis", so they started using it as the word for kitchen.

It was fascinating to see how many different shades of red Rob's face can take on.☺️

Well, "Boy Howdy!', I've finally found my people. Having such a fun and informative vehicle for etymology makes me as happy as a gopher in soft dirt. Thank you both for your time, effort, and energy devoted to Words Unravelled.

Dear Rob and Jess, That was most enjoyable. As a lapsed amateur sailor and lifelong pedant, I offer the following. There are two bows on a ship or boat, port and starboard. They are the metaphorical shoulders of the vessel. One can stand in the bows of the ship but there is no such thing as the bow. There is however a stem and a prow. The ship's toilet is called the heads, not the head. Probably derived from the forward projecting heads (or ends) of the longitudinal hull beams, forward of the prow. A refreshing and hygienic place to "crimp off a length", offering a natural bidet effect in choppy seas but not for the faint-hearted in rough weather. Aft is an adverb, as is forward (pron. forrad). One might move or look aft or forward but the adjectives are after and fore, as in fore hatch and after deck (and see poop). Sadly I have advanced and lost this argument several times in my career as an aerospace engineer when for example, my nomenclature of "after galley" has been rejected in favour of the newspeak "aft galley". It makes my blood boil. There are many nautical terms used in aviation. Modern leisure sailors frequently use the term "to be pooped" when a following breaking wave (and cf. French "vague") fills their cockpit with green water. I don't think "port" has anything to do with cutting holes in the side of one's vessel (that is the enemy's job). In common modern usage is the phrase "port side" as in "We'll come alongside (the quay) port side to.". Occam's razor insists that this is the derivation. Coming alongside a stone quay steer-board side would risk expensive damage. The union jack is the union flag flown from the jack staff of one of His Majesty's vessels. Athwartships is indeed a lovely word and means across the ship. The plank upon which one rests one booty whilst rowing a dinghy is known as a thwart. The bitts in timber vessels are a stout pair of posts in the bows to which the end of an anchor or mooring rode is attached. Hence to reach the bitter end was to have used all of your available mooring cable/rode/warp/chain: indicative of a precarious situation with no further options. A sheet is a line (rope is the material, line refers to the function) used to control the leeward (pron. loo-ard) side of a sail, pulling it to the correct angle to the wind. A square sail would have a line attached to each bottom corner. When attempting to make to windward, the one on the leeward side would act as the sheet. If the vessel (perhaps with the crew under a Bacchanalian influence) inadvertently went about (tacked or gybed) and the lines previously known as sheets were not released in favour of their athwartships counterparts, the sails would go aback, leading to loss of way and possible damage to sails and rigging. Hence the phrase "sheets to the wind". BTW one definition of a ship is a vessel with three masts. Shiver, sliver and maybe splinter: from the same root do you think? A book which I am certain you would enjoy is "The Boat-owner's Practical Dictionary" by Denny Desoutter the founding editor of Practical Boat Owner magazine. Interestingly, he anglicised his name from his native French Denis, presumably to appeal to the linguaphobic British market. Good luck in finding a copy. Many thanks for all you do. Best regards and good evening, Dave.

My mother was born and raised in Alberta, Canada in the 1920s. When I was young, she used to call me a Scallywag when I was doing something impish. I don't recall hearing the word since my childhood. Thanks for brining back some fond memories!

5:21 I favor the theory that port for left comes from the side of the ship that's next to the dock. One can grasp the logic by studying the details of Viking ships, which survive today thanks to ship burials from the 8th century. The rudder or "steer board" of a Viking ship is attached to the hull by way of a cunningly crafted ball-and-socket joint carved entirely from wood. It's obvious that the rudder was both vital and expensive. The ship was uncontrollable without it, and not everyone had the skill and tools to construct it. Compared to the hull the steer-board was fragile. It needed to be protected. Consequently, no Viking captain worthy of the rank would tie up his ship so that the steer-board could impact the pier. Thus the left side of the ship was the side always next to the pier when docked. Port as in "door" doesn't make sense as a name for the left side of a ship because early vessels like Viking ships had no doors or portholes. To load or unload the ship, just step over the gunnels.

I grew up surrounded by naval slang, without knowing. When I moved to another city I found it odd that people couldn't understand my vocab, for example: gash (garbage), scran, grog, ditch (throw something out), chit, buffer, oppo, come adrift, etc.

In Canada, a few decades ago, we started a one-dollar coin nicknamed "a Looney." It was named after a type of duck in the design. Later, a two-dollar coin was introduced which people the "DubLoony."

'Sheet' is a rope with a very specific purpose - it is the rope that is attached to the free end of a sail, and it controls how taught the sail is, which way it is set. I was very confused when you talked about the poop deck being at the bow of the ship. All the poop decks I ever heard of were at the stern. There are so many phrases we have that are derived from sailing and seamanship - you covered quite a few. Others include "swinging the lead" (hanging around doing nothing much), not enough room to swing a cat, tip top and Bristol fashion and so on. How about "thwart" and "athwart"? A thwart is a seat on a (usually small) boat that is set across the beam of the boat (which reminds me of the phrase "broad in the beam"), and is also a verb - to spoil someone's plans. Broadside on, of course, is another phrase. Hull down - for something going away from you. Come about. Belay that. Splice the main brace. Heading in the right direction. Keelhaul. On your beam ends. Careen (careening around). And so many more.

These two work so well together- lovely conversation.

I love the "etymology" that can be gleaned from my favorite line in sitcom history. Buccaneer as interpreted in 3rd Rock From The Sun. When Dick is at a Halloween party dressed as a pirate and someone asks him where his buccaneers are. Right here, under my buckin' hat! I know, old joke taking several forms, but they got away with it on TV and that floated my boat.

Rob and Jess, this was an excellent presentation. Seafaring has indeed been a major influence on world culture. Other words you might consider in a future video are: mast, oar, oarlock, galley, strake, bulwark, sheer, head, gunwales, brass monkey, beat to quarters, clew, related to your previously duscussed bitter end, sheet bend, keel, keelage, keelhaul, eight bells, and of course astern where the poop deck is, and ship's wash or wake.

Best nautical movie in my library, "Yellowbeard"! Love the joke, Why are pirates pirates? 'Cause they aaaarrrgghhh! 😅

(I knew I'd come across 'larboard' before!) He was thoughtful and grave-but the orders he gave Were enough to bewilder a crew. When he cried "Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!" What on earth was the helmsman to do? - Fit the Second, the Bellman's Speech - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876).

Port also means "carry" or "transport", so we're back to "loading side".

Great work. A few notes: my Slovak friends also use "ahoy", in the same sense. A "poop deck" is at the stern, from French/Latin. A timber can be properly shivered by a cannonball. Regarding "port" and "starboard", a rudder mounted to starboard could be damaged if that side were put against a dock, hence keep the other side towards the port.

What’s most enjoyable is how nerdy you two get when discussing English language history. 😊

Living in Malaysia some years ago, a passenger in my car told me to "gostan." I asked him what that meant in English and he somewhat indignantly said "that is English." It's a shortened version of go astern - a phrase which Malaysians always use instead of go backwards. [paul]

One correction - "Poop" or rather, the poopdeck is actually at the rear. It's foreward equivalent could be considered the forecastle, pronounced fo'c'sle :)

Cat out of the bag refers to removing the cat o’ nine tails before flogging. 12:45

A nautical term in wide common use is "aboveboard," which means 'honest." It's from the practice of pirate crews hiding below the gunwales (sideboards) of their ship as they approached another ship to maintain the advantage of surprise. Law-abiding crews had no reason to conceal themselves when in view of another ship; they were all "aboveboard."

I LOVE these! Thank you. By and Large is a nautical phrase, according to the interwebs I spoke to. When you are sailing closed hauled, or as close to the wind as you can, you are sailing "By the wind" When you are sailing down wind, you put out all your sails and are "Sailing large". So, "By and large" means "generally", or every point of sail.

There is also the word Coal scuttle, which was a small coal bin kept near a fireplace or stove, from which one replenished coals or anthracite in the fireplace.

"Three sheets to the wind" when one of the sails of a four armed windmill is loosed and the whole of the timber built edifice wobbles from the lack of symmetry.

24:10 The line on a compass indicating straight ahead (and where you should reading your heading) is called the "lubber('s) line" - supposedly to make reading a compass easier to read for the nautically challenged (a.k.a. "lubbers").

As a child i though a land-lubber, was 'land lover' and 'Cut of your jib' was 'cut of your jip' (joke or humour) and later 'jut og your jig' as a reference to a jig that holds timber as you cut it. In Australia 'savvy' can refer to a skill, or cunning "She is savvy with a sewing machine" or "She is savvy in these situations"

Scupper! The holes in the side rails that allow water to drain from the deck are called Scuppers. They can be blocked with Scupper plates to keep fish or small children from falling off the deck. To Scupper means to spoil something or discard something.

There's a rich tradition of 'Jackspeak' - sailor slang - in the UK. One that's always stuck with me is the expression 'getting off at Fratton'. Fratton is the last train station before Portsmouth Docks and the phrase is a euphemism for Coitus Interruptus.

Re poop-deck/puppis... I've been into astronomy since I was a kid, so I knew that the huge S Hemisphere constellation of Argo Navis ("the Ship Argo") has been subdivided into 3 other constellations: Carina (the keel), Vela (the sail) and Puppis (the stern).

Poop is the raised section to give more room over the cabin and is in the rear of the ship, not the front. The front is the fo'castle (forecastle) with the obvious derivation.

I'm rather surprised that 'not enough room to swing a cat' or 'let the cat out of the bag' didn't come up. The former meaning that the room or area one is in is too small in area to swing a cat o'nine tails (a nine roped switch or whip with knots in used to lash/whip sailors) and the latter meaning that someone has informed the officers or let slip a shipmate's transgressions, leading to the the cat o'nine tails to be removed from its bag and be put to use.

a buccaneer is also the price of corn on the cob some places . . .

The reason for the "starboard" or "steer board" side is opposite of the "port" or "larboard" (loading" side) it that it was preferred to tie a boat up to the quay on the side opposite where the rudder was hung in order to avoid damaging the rudder by accidentally hitting the peer while mooring and unmooring. Also, wave action could cause the boat to crush the rudder between the boat and the peer.

I think the "a" in front of a word is used to draw attention to a matter. Like "a-reise..." wake up call. Its good to notice in noisy surroundings. Thx, for this great video!

Fun episode for this landlubbing pirate writer. I love that unflappable Jess didn't know about "roger" & the look on Rob's face! Robert Newton's LJS is iconic. That TV show & Robert Shaw's Buccaneers show gave us a lot of todays' modern impression of pirates. The poop section had me very confused. Poop decks are at the back - & I just noticed as I type this that Rob has corrected that in comments. I did learn something... Seems my ancestors transported to America were scallywags both in the 17th- & 19th-century senses.

Speaking of "fingers of the foot," my sister, whose German is scant, was once unable to come up with the German for "toe" (no idea how that came up in conversation) and invented on the fly the word Fußfinger--"foot finger." ("Coffin" came out as "Totencoffer"--"bodycase.")

The sheets are the ropes which control the set of the sail. When they are to the wind the sails are luffing and the ship is not being controlled. "Splice the main brace" was the term for partaking of an extra tot of rum, originally the reward given to the sailor who has performed this very difficult and important task of repairing the lines controlling the yards.

"touch and go" - When fishing boats returned with their catch going upriver, they needed to get to market as quickly as possible to get the best prices. When they had the tide behind them they would go purposely go aground on the sandbanks and the tide would lift them off as it came in. They would touch the sandbank and then go as the tide lifted and pushed them. It was the way to stay at the front of the race.

Im old enough & my pop was an English major along with being a WW2 Marine Corps veteran that I knew/learned these as a child. Thanks for posting this. Old ships loaded goods on the larboard side so that the stearing board on the starboard side wouldn't be damaged while tied to the wharf.

Bitter end... bight end? Fascinating.

Fascinating episode! Another is "by and large," which I believe was a sailing term for tacking either with or against the wind, and coming to mean, "given the expected complications...." You did mention "taken aback," as in a foiled tack when wind snapped a sail to the wrong side and pushed the ship back.

For a fuller explanation of lubber, google lubber line. It refers to a line drawn on a compass to show the direction of travel, or course

Well, you've set me right about landlubber (which I always thought was a corruption of land-lover), and about starboard, which I always thought was the side of the ship away from the lights of the port, where you'd only see stars even when the ship was docked.

Glad you've corrected yourself on poop. Jess was right in the Latin origins, I think. Many other nautical terms you mentioned are still in use in practical seamanship today. The specific lexicon to seafaring (at least in the English speaking world) is substantial. And many terms that might sound "piratey" and archaic to the landlubber, are simply part of shipboard language. I can't vouch for today's navies, but when I served in ships, drinking fountains were called the scuttlebutt. If you called it anything else you'd get assigned extra duty.

A ton of nautical terms - especially parts of boats and sails, types of boats as well of features around shipping and shorelines come from the Dutch: keel, shore, jib, ketch, bow, yacht, schooner, aboard, sail, avast, berm, boom, frigate, leak, pump, rudder, scow, maelstrom, ship, skipper, freight, captain, buoy, plug, bulwark,

I guess landlubber was turned into an eggcorn for me, because I always thought it was landlover.

We definitely need to make lubberwort as euphemism for marijuana a thing.

As others have said, the poop deck is at the stern and the constellation Puppis is the poop deck of the ship Argo. Also, "Three sheets to the wind" comes from windmills. If they have 3 sails on (windmill sheets are sails while ship sheets are ropes), then the windmill is off balance.

On the old sailing ships, the poop deck was the highest deck at stern. It gave the navigator/commander the best view how the sails were set & of surrounding sea.

I love that you blushed about "roger" robword.

I do love a show which causes me to learn, appreciate the scholarship, and chuckle at your antics, with Jess's eyepatch opening and your both often corny comments. Learning with humor! None better!

Have you heard of the impoverished, deaf pirate? He had no buccaneers! Boom-tsch.....

Backing is also used in meteorology for a wind changing in an anticlockwise direction, say from North to North-Western. The opposite direction is called veering.

7:50 - fun fact, the butt is an actual unit of measurement, usually meant for fermented liquids (wine, beer, etc). One butt of volume is equal to two hogsheads, or half a tun. So... if you use water, that's about 8 pounds per US gallon. And since the unit butt is about 126 gallons (108 Imperial gallons), then a tun weighs around 2100 lbs, or just about halfway between one short ton and one long ton.

Another one - Amidships, the space between the bow and stern. Also the root of the navy rank of Midshipmen who were considered somewhere between the crew (who live before the mast), and officers who live aft. Athwartships is a fun one too!

I love how Rob turns purple when he discusses sex

The bow of the boat: If you think about it, the bows of ancient boats were formed by curved pieces of timber attached to and curving upwards from, the keel. That curve, formed in larger boats by steaming the timber to shape - or in a small boat by using a piece of timber selected from the tree that is already of the right curvature, is curved like a bow - an archery bow - hence the name - the bow. The Union Jack - the Union Flag flown from the Jackstaff. The Jackstaff is at the front of the ship - originally sticking upwards from the bowsprit, now at the very end of the front of the ship - right up at the pointy end! In the 18th and 19th centuries the main flag was at the back, a tall flagstaff just immediately forrard of the taffrail and carrying a very large flag - those are your Colours. So long as your colours are still flying you are still in the fight - you haul down your colours to indicate to the enemy that you are surrendering. Avast! : In modern archery in England if someone suddenly and for no apparent reason shouts "FAST" - you instantly stop shooting even if you are at full draw and just on the point of loosing the arrow - it comes from the word Avast and means *Stop!!* - in an emergency context. Nearly 50 years ago I was at a competition on a field shared with a football pitch - there were safety barriers but a footballer crossed those without looking and ran across directly in front of the archers about 50 yards downrange - one archer loosed his arrow during the instant in which the shout "Fast!" was given - the arrow went through the footballers shirt behind his shoulder without actually nicking the skin - he never understood just how lucky he'd just been. If he'd been 6 inches slower it would have penetrated his heart through the left side of his ribcage. My blood ran cold - thought he was a gonner for sure as I watched him and the arrow on a converging course. Actually - since she told you it referred to the stern of the ship and you *still* didn't realise your landlubber mistake I think you should walk the plank anyway 'cos that counts as 2 not 1. The sheets are the ropes that come off the bottom corners of the sail by the way. The tacks come off the ends of the yardarms. You use those 2 in conjunction to angle the sail relative to the wind and shape the sail how you want it for best efficiency. And I'm a couchlubber by the way, watching too much utube.

Many former Spanish colonies use pesos - 'pieces' - still. R. L. Stevenson based Long John Silver on a real person. He was his friend, the poet W. E. Henley Very striking figure, with a great buggerly beard, a heavy Gloucestershire accent and one leg.

I always used to think that it was 'tow the line'. Which I understood as something similar to 'pulling your weight'. It's good to know the definition as, apart from anything else, it certainly helps for remembering the spelling.

This is such a fun collaboration. Keep these clips coming please. Love it

I love all things language! And I adore this channel. I listen to Rob words, and have recommended it to many . The two of you are so cute together also!

The a- prefix in works like aback, along, askance, aggrieve, abaft, adrift, and ashore can mean "to, "toward," or "on."

There was great debate among the sailors of various cultures. The Jib's primary function was to allow for a greater top speed, and each culture argued that it's jib design was faster (and in differing winds they were all correct). To like the cut of someones jib. Is to think that they are better suited to do a job.

Comment on PORT. The reason for Larboard being superceded was the possible confusion with STARBOARD. But the change took place long after the disapearance of the side mounted steering oar (or board). Ships still tended to be moored on the Port side, and to me that is the only logical reason for using the word--it related to what was actually being done. The term could have been use before the "official change over, if there was a change over, as for a while, both terms were in use at the same time.

Robb and Jess make an irresistible team. I watched to the bitter end. (Sorry. I couldn’t help myself)

This was so much fun! I would love a "part two" of this "skullduggery"!

Hello love your show :) So Being a bilingual french english. I was said in my youth while I was learning to sail dinghies, that the word port side came from the word "porte" french for Door. Arrrg now I have to find my instructor from the 80's and tell him he was a scallywag!

I read Treasure Island as an adult and was amazed at how many of the pirate tropes came from that book. The parrot and everything.

17:38 I always assumed that ‘Pieces of Eight’ came from the fact that some gold coins back then were octagonally shaped.

A couple of notes: To my knowledge, it was not considered dishonorable to fly the flag of the "wrong" country unless you actually fought with that flag flying. To fly another flag before a fight is just a "ruse de guerre". The USA also has a Union Jack, which is a naval flag in the form of the 50-starred blue canton of the National Ensign without the stripes. A privateer is specifically a ship that has been granted "Letters of marque and reprisal". These were granted by national governments to privately owned ships to give them the right to prosecute war on the nation's behalf. Which makes them more equivalent to a private military contractor than a pirate. Knot teachers and books keep current several nautical terms, which shouldn't be too much of a surprise: the bitter end of a rope is the free end that you use when tying most knots, a "bight" is a loop in the middle of a rope, a "bowline" (pronounced like the weapon you use to shoot an arrow) is a popular non-slipping knot. (Note that I'm leaving aside the technical differences between rope, line, cable, ....) I'll also mention "mainstay", which is a specific line holding the mainmast in place on a ship.

A friend of mine did a skit character who would say such things as, "How nauseous!" The jack is a smaller field of the whole flag, flown from the jackstaff on the stern. A ship being pounded from astern by high seas is being pooped, in that its foward progress is held back by taking the weight of water on the poop deck. The other officers of the Caine tried to get Captain Queeg to face the ship into the wind during the typhoon for this reason.

Square-rigged sailing ships: at sea their horizontal spars are at all different angles as their rectangular sails pull them along with the wind direction. In port, the sails are removed and these spars are neatened up by setting them all perpendicular to the length of the ship, or "all squared away". Also, talking about booty, something that you want that you don't have, in French one usage of the word butine is as a verb for a bee that is pollinating plants, and since flowers need the pollen the bees are providing for reproduction, the flowers are getting uhhhh booty.

Here are a few others: Bulkhead - Refers to "walls" in a ship, particularly structural components of a ship that are vertical and run abeam and fore and aft that make the ship rigid. The term comes from the secondary purpose of providing stabilization to cargo in the holds. "Bulki" is Old Norse for cargo, and "head" refers to an upright component. Speaking of "head", this is what the bathrooms are called. In old ship construction, the bathrooms on a ship were at the bow, also called the "head" of the ship where the toilets would open to the sea below. Being at the bow was ideal because they would be cleaned naturally as the ship cut through the water. So to "go to the head" or "make a head call" is euphemistic on naval vessels to go to the bathroom. Here's an ancient Naval term for you. There were reeders in ancient Europe. (I know this because my mother's maiden name is "Reeder".) Ancient ships had thatched roofs and reeders were the artisans who repaired ships roofs. Some ancient signs still remain at old ports for the "Reeder" (of various spellings depending on the language).

Poop deck is the raised cabin top at the aft or stern. The name originates from the French word for stern, la poupe, from Latin puppis. The ship's toilet was in the bow, or the heads, the toilet is still called the head in the navy.

Y'all are a great duo. I really enjoy your content! Thanks for all you do!

Wonderful podcast, although I feel a little overloaded! I may have "missed the boat" on this one but I would have loved you discuss the origin of the term "posh" which I think erroneously was meant to stand for "port off starboard home" and similarly, "muppet" which I was told was supposed to stand for "most useless person (the) purser ever trained". Further, about the Poop, I understood it was "a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear" from the French/Latin "la poupe"/"puppis" and getting "pooped upon" was when water ran off said roof on top of you. Always ready to be stood corrected though! Also, would like to put in a word for Moonfleet, an often over-looked stablemate of Treasure Island.

Brewer's says toe the line comes from lining up for foot races at the start line. I've also heard it attributed to starting a bare knuckle boxing match with the boxers starting with their leading foot on either side of a line.

Congratulations on a fantastic video!, Such fun and interesting g!

Here's a weird technical term in naval architecture. The 'vertical' supports that run fore and aft through the double bottoms of the ship are 'floors'. So decks are horizontal and floors are vertical on a ship.

Wonderful how words and expressions relate and differ in English and Dutch. No wonder with common ancestors and a shared sea to fight over. You mention starboard and port. We have stuurboord (which is exactly starboard) and bakboord. My guess is that it is called so because when your attention is towards the rudder at starboard, bakboard is at your back. About booty: a related Dutch word is buit, which means loot. Btw: very interesting channel, and i love the interaction between you two.

This is the show I didn't know I needed! Y'all are both interesting and entertaining! Thank you for doing these!

🎶"Shave and a haircut - two bits!"🎶

Poop deck: The name comes from the after deck section on Roman ships, (puppim - pronounced “poo-pim”) where small statues or sacred images (puppis - meaning dool or statue) of gods were kept.

"Shiver" is still use here in Norfolk, England regarding a splinter. Norfolk also being a county with a close link to the sea. (Nelson's County!)

A pirate raided on his own and a privateer was given a Letter of Marque which made what he did legal. It was a way for a country to get a Navy without having to pay for it. The privateers split the booty from the ships they captured.