please God just call it port

[Shurrikhan]

i'm not angry about it - I feel like I've learned something today. But these aren't just 'old-terms' they are literal dead phrases. I have never seen or come across it any literature, let alone spoken word.

The term is still used often in fiction. Robert Jordan's, E. Feist, and Brandon Sanderson, iirc, all use the symmetry of larboard/starboard over starboard and... port.

It still seems the more prevalent choice in most of my world literature anthologies from back in university (I was an English major), even 1800s to modern.