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[–] Ultraviolet 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Port was also initially Larboard, but it turns out when shouting a direction from the other side of a boat, having two similar sounding terms for opposite directions often results in crashing said boat, so it was changed in the mid 1800s.