Well there you go. You DO learn something new every day ;-) Dave S
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 04:37:49 -0500, Herb Chong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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....
