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[Sliabh_Luachra]

I’m so very glad to see that since we were given this new forum we are doing our absolute best to stay on the topic of squeezeboxes. . .

[Wombat]

@Sliabh Luachra

I’m so very glad to see that since we were given this new forum we are doing our absolute best to stay on the topic of squeezeboxes. . .

This thread started life elsewhere. Look at the dates.

[Rick_C]

@Anonymous

@Nanohedron

@meemtp

what’s a pom??

A disparaging term for a British citizen.

So nowadays its like calling a US person a ‘Yank’.

I’ve always been mildly amused at being referred to as a “Yank”.

You don’t hear the term “Yankee” in the Southern US as much as you once did (prolly because there are so *!!$@! many of them down here), but that term is always derogatory.



Rick

[johnkerr]

@Rick C.

You don’t hear the term “Yankee” in the Southern US as much as you once did (prolly because there are so *!!$@! many of them down here), but that term is always derogatory.

Thanks to a certain baseball team that term also gets used in a derogatory fashion (usually preceded by an expletive) in many large US population centers outside the South. Boston comes to mind here.

To get this thread back closer to the topic of squeezing, I considered introducing a discussion here about the squeeze bunt, but thought better of it…

[Martin_Milner]

@Wombat

@Martin Milner

@Wombat

You’re right about ‘pom’ being an Australian terms ofr recent arrivals from England. You’re also right about it being a very mild slang term with no serious derogatory overtones.

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Pom seems to be derived by rhyming slang from immigrant via pomegranite. Not exactly cuttingly insulting is it?

Or possibly Prisoner of (His/Her) Majesty.

It’s only insulting to me if it’s intended to be.

I’ve never heard that suggestion. It looked quite plausible for a minute or two until I reflected on who would have used it originally? In convict days, almost everybody arrived from Britain.

Here is a possibility though. Perhaps the first few generations of Australian-born free men and women referred to new arrivals this way. The problem here is that, after a couple of decades, quite a few new arrivals would not have been convicts. Still, the meaning could easily have morphed into it’s current shape over the last two centuries.

It’s not a term I’d use often, if at all, but it’s not a term I’d avoid because of insulting overtones. I might use it in ‘quotes’ when mocking xenophobic Australians.

I think for the first few decades all arrivals were transported from Britain, either as convicts or their guards and overseers. We used to export people all over the world, for stealing a loaf of bread, Trevelyan’s corn, or a sheep.

[Rick_C]

[quote="johnkerr
To get this thread back closer to the topic of squeezing, I considered introducing a discussion here about the squeeze bunt, but thought better of it…[/quote]

Bah-dump-bump…

You’ll be here all weeK?

Ha, that was good!


But yeah, I’ve watched in amazement many times as Joe Derrane nimbly did things that are impossible to us mere mortals. I did try to coax a tune from Jim Coogan on D/C# also this past summer so I could say I’d seen another well-known D/C# player in action.


Rick