Jinx,

On Mon, 02 May 2005 12:56:42 +1200, Jinx wrote:

> Two
> 
> > Russell,
> > 
> > On Mon, 02 May 2005 09:19:07 +1200, Russell McMahon wrote:
> > 
> > >...< 
> > > > Do you mean POHM?  If not, what does POM stand for?
> > > 
> > > "Prisoner Of Mother-England" or abbreviation of POMegranate or ???.
> > 
> > Errr - not at all sure why pomegranates would have been relevant :-)
> 
> There's also the "pomme" version (pomme being French for apple,
> or even pomme de terre - potato)

How would this relate to a person, though?  And why an English one?
 
> I don't think anyone really knows with certainty anymore. At least
> "limey" is traceable
> 
> > > I've never  met "POHM" but I suspect that may translate "Prisoner Of 
> > > Her Majesty"?, which would be similar but subtly different.
> > 
> > Yes, that's what I'd always understood was the origin of the expression!
> 
> That applies more to Australia (historical fact, not sniping). NZ was
> not a penal colony

But it may well have travelled, surely?  Otherwise would it have come about in NZ independantly?

> Q. How can you tell when a plane-load of Poms has landed ?
> 
> A. ?????

I do know this one, but I'm not going to bite!  :-)

Incidentally, in an office I worked in at one time we had about 0.0002% of the population of New Zealand!

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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