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Originally Posted by Skyhook  We don't mind if you're a Brit Shilo, we both share the same head of state and acknowledge our British past, as do the Kiwi's, which is why the Union Jack still remains proudly on both flags.
Btw, I won't use the POM term, it really doesnt have any intelligent relevance today. A very old colonial abreviation for Prisoner Of Her/His Majesty.
Which Shilo, you're clearly not...  |
Well, not only am I an atheist (to follow on from an earlier post this wek) but I am definitely an anti-royalist. The French had the right idea IMHO. I have no plans to go back to Blighty, even as a prisoner of her Maj.
Buy hey - are you sure about the origin of the word POM? I always thought it derived from the word Pomegranate? Check this out.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pom1.htm
It possibly derives from the fact that the Anglo-Saxon skin turned red in the Aussie sun like a Pomegranate or that many people on the long sea-journey suffered/died from scurvy and pomegranates were an excellent source of Vitamin C and would last a long time. Americans called Brits 'limeys' for a similar reason as limes were consumed to combat scurvy
