On 10/10/2006, at 10:15 PM, Ray Ludenia wrote:
In the original context of "whinging pom", it definitely means complaining or whining in Australia. It was applied to those poms who migrated out here, and who were disappointed that things were different from "home". A commonly accepted derivation of pom is from pommie, or Prisoner Of Mother England, I guess going back to the old days when the UK practised foreign rendition a couple of hundred years ago. ;->
Although it does seem to be apocryphal, that explanation. The true derivation may have been lost for good.
Ray, I've not got your contact details anymore. Could you mail me your phone number? We'll try to pop down in a few weeks time. :-)
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