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Chicklet
19th-December-2004, 10:52 PM
did the word "snob" originate as an acronym?

if not, anyone know the origin?
ta :D

Lory
20th-December-2004, 12:05 AM
I found this if it helps :confused:

"Snob" began as schoolboy slang at Eton Eton can refer to several things:

when many more sons of the rich manufacturers of the booming industrial revolution were joining the sons of the gentry.

The "snobs" designated the group of boys who were not "nobs," the nobility. The "snobs" were those who, sine nobilitate ("without a title to nobility")

MartinHarper
20th-December-2004, 12:48 AM
Google is your friend.

http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=snob+etymology

First hit:

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwordorigins/snob?view=uk

Stuart M
20th-December-2004, 12:25 PM
did the word "snob" originate as an acronym?

if not, anyone know the origin?
ta :D
There's a myth that the word 'posh' is an acronym for 'Port Out, Starboard Home', referring to the preferable cabin arrangements for well-heeled ocean liner passengers. Maybe that's what you're thinking of? :nice:

foxylady
20th-December-2004, 12:42 PM
There's a myth that the word 'posh' is an acronym for 'Port Out, Starboard Home', referring to the preferable cabin arrangements for well-heeled ocean liner passengers. Maybe that's what you're thinking of? :nice:

It isn't a myth.. P.O.S.H. was stamped on the luggage of said people who could afford to be on the sunny side of the boat (or was it the shady side... memory now fai.................

Lou
20th-December-2004, 01:00 PM
For etymology questions I recommend the Word Detective. (http://www.word-detective.com)

For snob (http://www.word-detective.com/091400.html#snob) he agrees with the link that MartinHarper found.

And for Posh (http://www.word-detective.com/100297.html#posh97) he has a derivation from an old Romany word....

Chicklet
20th-December-2004, 01:05 PM
Stuart, you are correct, POSH is what I was thinking of!

Thanks all!!

(still very booky in my world and not terribly internety :blush: so I will write these sites down in my magic notebook )

Graham
20th-December-2004, 01:08 PM
Have just spent several entertaining minutes researching both words and the consensus seems to be that snob was originally a word meaning shoemaker, and that posh is derived from the Romany word meaning half.

Matthew
20th-December-2004, 01:54 PM
It isn't a myth.

Yerp, and the "Ship High In Transit" and "Fornicate Under Consent of King" etymologies aren't myths either, honest ;-)


So who has a good backronym for "CEROC"?

John S
20th-December-2004, 03:45 PM
So who has a good backronym for "CEROC"?

One follows the other:

Crazy Energetic Rockers Often Collapse

Chocolate Eaten: Recovery On Course

Lou
20th-December-2004, 04:03 PM
Crazy Energetic Rockers Often Collapse

Chocolate Eaten: Recovery On Course
Copyright every routine, or charge?

Could Ellard run organised competition?


:whistle:

CJ
21st-December-2004, 04:48 AM
CJ eats rumballs off Chicklet??

Cracking Evening Rocking Over Caledonia

ChrisA
21st-December-2004, 09:44 AM
Competing events reduce our clientele.

Dreadful Scathe
21st-December-2004, 10:38 AM
Could Ellard run organised competition?


:D Andy McGregor may like this one :)

Lynn
22nd-December-2004, 02:59 PM
'Port Out, Starboard Home' 'Posh with a capital P, O, S, H, Posh!' sings

No-one else seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?