I again feel compelled to add in my two-cents worth:
The word Pommie, comes from the original convicts sent to our shores,
whose uniforms/clothes were painted with the acronym "POME" - meaning
Prisoner Of Mother England.
As far as I am aware, Pommie did not come from rhyming slang
Also, when we refer to the English as POMs this is not intended to be an
insult - it is almost a term of endearment!
Furthermore, whilst we may have developed a society for two hundred
years away from the Northern hemisphere, I am pleased to say that
generally we don't carry firearms/knives to school or work in case
somebody upsets you and thus you shoot them; nor do we sue anybody who
may have looked at us strangely or said something uncalled-for about our
mothers!
RichardDuncan wrote:
>
> It's a word short for "Pommie" used disparagingly by Australians (and other
> colonials) to describe a "Brit" ie. someone from Britain - a Briton.
> Supposedly orignated from a shortening and corruption of the word
> "pomegranate" combined with alteration of "Jimmy Grant", rhyming slang for
> for the despised British "immigrant" to Australia. All rather abstruse,
> but then what can you expect from life forms that developed .......Uh, oh.
>
> Richard
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> > What does POMs stand for in the Australian/paltypus/sauce thread?
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