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When someone doesn't know what they are talking about. The left side is "port".

Starboard is the right side, where the "steer-board" (i.e. rudder) was located on early Medieval ships.

And it is only the right side when you are facing the bow of the ship.

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Q: When and how did the left side of the ship come to be called starboard?
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