Re: AW: New Member

[Herb Chong]

it's not the only plausible theory, but it's one of the more defensible 
ones.

Herb....
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From: "David S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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....