The Cormanus Chronicles: 2024 Winter Ride

[Cormanus]

I'm not sure about the song, pdedse, but I like 'dry as a Pommy's bath mat'. Pom or Pommie can be both affectionate and critical. Of course.

I hadn't heard the connection to Pomegranate. Is doesn't quite work for me as the term is applied to folk from the UK rather than immigrants generally. The usual one trotted out is that the convicts brought to Australia by the British wore clothes marked with POHM (Prisoner of His Majesty). The other I recall from my childhood is that the French referred to the English as pommes de terre, but I see no reference to that anywhere now.

Perhaps you read [url=https://www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opinion/curious-questions-australians-call-british-poms-200250]this article?