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Posted on December 10 at 11:03 a.m.
The "posh" story is demonstrably and provably wrong. Michael Quinion has the full details: <http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pos1...>
I believe the "doghouse" story is also bunk--especially since the term first appears in English in the 20th Century--but it's going to take more investigation than I have time for right now.
On Vocabulary derived from sailing