Gordon wrote:

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:45:43 +1300, Jay wrote:


While on the topic.....

a) It's supposed to be POHM (Prisoner of Her Majesty) and


POME, Prisioner of Mother England. These were prisions from the UK dumped
in OZ. They were Pomies, see? ;-)


The most plausible so far for me is that pom is a short for
POHMIE (prisoner of her majesty in exile), written beside the
name on convicts' documents. So POHMIE - pommie - pom.