To: Neophyte
Who are the "Poms"? I don't recognize that term.
3 posted on
11/08/2004 5:33:34 AM PST by
68skylark
To: 68skylark
"pomegranates" - English - because of the sunburn.
5 posted on
11/08/2004 5:35:44 AM PST by
nina0113
To: 68skylark
A Pom is an Englishman newly arrived in NZ or Australia.
8 posted on
11/08/2004 5:39:29 AM PST by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: 68skylark
Who are the "Poms"? I don't recognize that term. "pomegranates" - English - because of the sunburn.
There is also another explanation:
P(roduct) O(f) the M(othercountry) - the latter obviously being England.
10 posted on
11/08/2004 5:43:50 AM PST by
Neophyte
(Nazists, Communists, Islamists... what the heck is the difference?)
To: 68skylark
A pom is a shortening of pome "Prisoner of Mother England". The english called Aussies this as a slur, going back to when it was a penal colony. Now the aussies use it as a slur against the British.
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