[Boiler Plate]

Just where did the name Pommies come from?

[Aussie Dasher]

There is a theory it stems from the earliest days of European settlement in Australia.

Being a pommy penal colony, the prisoners wore "Prisoner of Her Majesty" or "POHM" on their back.

[Fiji Hill]

Just where did the name Pommies come from?

It may have come from pomegranate, pommes, the French word for potatoes, or POM, meaning "permit of migration," a sort of "green card."