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Originally Posted by Steve Tinker
A Pommie is slang for an Englishman, which goes back a couple of hundred years when most immigrant white people were prisoners who where deported to Australia for various crimes like stealing, pickpocketing or just because the magistrate didn't like the look of you. POM = Prisoner of her Majesty.
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Not to question a native, but I always thought the acronym was POME (Prisoner of Mother England).
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