Re: AW: New Member

[Herb Chong]

an answer from linguists is it's short for pomegranate which, in the 
pronunciation of the time, rhymed with immigrant, and that many of the 
people there at the time used Cockney rhyming slang.

Herb....
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From: "David S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: AW: New Member


Peter's right, it's someone from Britain.
I've heard 2 different theories as to how the term POM came about.
1. Pom is a corrupted version of P.O.H.M. = Prisoner Of Her Majesty
2. it's a shortened version of P.O.M.E. = Prisoner Of Mother England
You have 1 Pom (P.O.H.M.) or a group of Pommie's  (P.O.M.E.)
As you know, Australia is full of convicts ;-)
Dave