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Originally Posted by JamMak
According to Mr Snopes, we're both wrong.
P.S. Pomegranate rhymes with immigrant??  |
Not in my eyes no - was always the flaw in the theory I quoted....I guess it kind of does - if you work at it....but why let a little thing like that confuse the issue
Erm btw the last paragraph from the Snoops
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"The best guess at this time is that "pommy" was based on the word "pomegranate" -- either because the redness of the fruit supposedly matched the typically florid British complexion, or because (like "Johnny Grant") it was used as rhyming slang for "immigrant."