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.
An alternative is based on the colonisation of NSW, Victoria and Tasmania
POHM - Prisoner of His Majesty - the acronym was apaprently emblazened on the
prisoner clothing issued on arrival. It tended to be used disparagingly of new
arrivals (ie prisoners) by older settlers (the colonials - many of whom were ex
prisoners anyway in those states).
I suspect that the free settlement areas (most notably South Australia) picked
it up quite quickly to distinguish themselves.
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> Richard
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> > What does POMs stand for in the Australian/paltypus/sauce thread?
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> > Dean Zias
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