Summoned to the fray!
Even without a naval background, the terms Port and Starboard are in fairly common usage. I'm pretty sure when I was learning to fly (with Bleriot and the Wright Bros) that I had to check my port and starboard nav. lens' were there, intact and uncracked!
Every manufacturer seems to delight in baffling new pilots to type, by inventing dozens of new acronyms for things we all knew on other aircraft by completely different names....T4, EGT, ITT, JPT etc.etc.
For our continental colleagues (for whom I have the utmost respect since they have to learn all this crap in a second language), the simple way to remember Port/Starboard is that "Port is left is red".