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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: british, "pommies"
Message-ID: <654@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Jun-84 13:01:54 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 10 13:01:54 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 00:38:17 EDT
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Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
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If I remember correctly, it was a contemptuous reference to the pale skin of
new British immigrants (skin as pink as pomegranates, hence "pommies"), as
contrasted with Australians who were a lot more tanned.
-- 
Saumya Debray, 	SUNY at Stony Brook

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