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« on: March 18, 2010, 03:37:05 pm »
The word starboard comes from an Old English word for rudder or steering board, which a long time ago used to be offset to the right because most people were right-handed and it was operated directly using a tiller. Of course everybody knew which side the steering board was on, even if they didn't know left from right.
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