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Myk Rushton <permaculture@wave.co.nz> wrote
in message news:7tjl6n$4q$1@news.wave.co.nz...
> Rod Speed <rod.speed@usa.net> wrote
>> Myk Rushton <permaculture@wave.co.nz> wrote

>>> Just lurking as normal but feel a correction is in order

>> You havent managed any 'correction', you've just run a tiny minority view.

> Probably right but writing ..but feel a tiny minority view is in order.
> Wouldn't really have had the same effect :-)

Nothing you wrote would have any effect, you aint the first
person to run that particular line about the source of the word.

The other common word where there is considerable
dispute about its origins is the word wog.

>>> Pom, is spelt POHM,

>> Wrong. Have a look at the Macquarie Dictionary for example.

> Now why would I have an Australian dictionary when I speak English? ;->

Coz its our usage, not the pom's.

That other 'limey' is a yank usage, not one of the pom's either.

>> Thats just one of the claimed derivations.

> That's all you need have said.

You get no say on what I need have said any time soon.

> Perhaps you could have added your definition
> i.e. that which you beleive to be true.

I did, specially with the spelling.

> I don't suppose the word was pulled from the ether.

I dont suppose it was. Does SFA to substantiate your claim tho.

>>> I'm from England,

>> We each have our cross to bear.

> At least mines on a flag! :-)

So's mine.

>>> that makes me a Limey.

>> And a pom.

>>> Work it out for yourself who the real pohms are :-)

>> You poms.

> What us Brits poms? Well I never. Least
> we have a sense of humour, or do we? ;->

Some of you poms certainly do. Some of us do too.

> BTW IAS, What is an person born in Australia know as?

Depends on who's saying it, just like with the poms.