Maybe they were talking about Peter who said he was a Pommie and an Aussie and it came out Possie? Lynn reckons she is a Canadian and an Aussie, that makes her a Caussie, but a "cossie" here in Oz is a swimming costume!
Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy Beeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 18 February, 2004 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Possie > At 05:48 PM 2/17/04 -0500, Judith Bongiovanni wrote: > > >Could someone tell me what I have missed. What is a possie? What is the > >derivation of the word? > > It's from "possum comitatus" and refers to a group of temporarily-deputized > citizens on horseback. > > -- > Joy Beeson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ > west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. > where the snow has melted and re-frozen. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
