ok your all scrapping the barrel, surley someone must have been present when the {noon} position was taken on the bridge everyday at sea.and related to the engine room.but then you would always enjoy an {oxo} brew to cheer and warm you and the mate up islandmann

how many are there on a compass face? NBW/WBN ETC...islandmann

Whoa! You can't get away with that, North by West is hardly a word it's more a phrase and if written as NBW it would be closer to being an acrnoym, a palindrome is a word such as Glenelg (A suburb of Adelaide), phrase or sentence that reads the same both ways, an acronym is a word made from the initials such North Atlantic Treaty Organization ... fair suck of the Sav me old mate!

know harm in trying tony open to debate islandmann