From: Douglas Greville (dgrev@iinet.net.au)
Date: Fri Mar 05 2004 - 22:39:05 PST
Ted
> Oh, "yanks" is polite. "Yankees" can be misconstrued....
> Ted
I have always used the terms "Yanks" and "Poms" with caution as
particularly with the term "Yank" I was under the impression you
could offend southerners?
Nice to know that is not the case. I will stay right away from
"Yankee".
The Poms have to tolerate us Aussies using that expression, they
were in control of our colonial past and it originated from
"the unique event where the finest minds of a world power
(England's judges) hand picked the inhabitants (crooks and thieves)
of a country (Australia) that they had no other practical use for".
They still seem to regret that decision to this day, we get all the
sunshine and they get to shiver in the rain............
P.O.M. = Prisoner of Mother England - supposedly P.O.M. was
printed on to the back of each convicts garment. So when they
got off the convict ships they all had P.O.M. on them, thus
to this day anyone from England is a Pom.
I believe the US term is "Limey".
Regards
Doug
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