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Omega General Help / Re: VX and Holden, does anyone know the diffrence?
« on: 21 December 2007, 19:41:38 »Quote
QuoteAnd 'Pom' is an abreviated form of the French 'Pomme' meaning appleQuoteQuoteI understood ome was an Oz and one was a Pom.?
Could you translate that into American please?
Seeing as he's from Greenock, it'll need to be translated into english before it could be translated into american.
I think the reference is to the original question, i.e. What's the difference between Vx and Holden.
Holden is an Australian company, hence 'Oz' and Vx is a British company, hence 'Pom' which is a derogatory term for the English used mainly by Commonwealth countries in the southern hemisphere.
Interesting. An extract from Wikipedia.
"Pommy
The term pommy or pommie is commonly used by speakers of Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English and Afrikaans. It is often shortened to pom. The origin of this term is not confirmed and there are several persistent false etymologies, most being backronyms.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) strongly supports the theory that pom and pommy originated as contractions of "pomegranate", Australian rhyming slang for immigrant. The OED cites a well-known Australian weekly, The Bulletin, which on 14 November 1912 reported: "The other day a Pummy Grant (assisted immigrant) was handed a bridle and told to catch a horse."[1]
A false etymology (or "backronym") common in both Australia and New Zealand is that pom originated as an acronym for "prisoner of (his/her) majesty" or "prisoner of mother England". Although many of the first British settlers in Australasia were convicts sentenced to transportation to Australia, there is no evidence for this. Some proponents of this theory claim that upon arrival in the country they would be given a uniform with "POHM" or "POME" emblazoned on the back, but there are no images or examples of these uniforms.
Other etymologies which are unsupported by evidence include :
"prisoner of Millbank", after the area of London where prisoners were held prior to transportation;
it is rhyming slang for tommy, international slang for a British soldier;
an acronym for "Port of Melbourne". However, the term "pommy" was coined long before POM was used as acronym for the port.
comes from "pomme", French for apple. The joke was that the pale British would turn red, like an apple, with sunburn when they landed in Australia.
Another backronym for POM relates to English immigrants who could not adjust to their new surroundings and were considered "prisoners of Mother England", in terms of attitude and culture."
Probably should be in 'General Chat' but interesting nevertheless.
