It's mad that it survived so long.Larboard surviving as a term feels like one of those things that almost should have happened.
Larboard surviving as a term feels like one of those things that almost should have happened.
Not really? When the wind in the wires makes that tattletale sound, everything magically becomes rather short. I'm almost suprised starboard didn't get cut down, since most of the time I miss a syllable of it in anything over a Beaufort 5, and once you get to exciting numbers like 7 or 8 speaking becomes a performance art at greater distances than a half-meter.