atw: Re: OT: Misconceptions
- From: Michael Edward Granat <megranat@xxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:54:12 +1100
Haven't you (Hadden) 'nough of this squabbling Craig?
I might be right, I might be wrong.
But with my Russian background, I'm not a Pom-M.E. Granat.
Granat = Russian for Garnet stone / Polish for Hand Grenade.
Granate = German for bomb shell fired from a cannon.
(According to teletype messages sent from The Bismark, which I saw on a
documentary.)
No relation to the quartz, mica and feldspar Granite or my name would be
Mica Granite).
At 14:38 6/2/2004, you wrote:
>Here I am pouring buckets of cold water again. Oh well.
>
>Michael wrote (rather condescendingly):
> > Yet another person under harbouring the commonly
> > held misconception the English are the pommies...
>
>The Macquarie Dictionary (3rd edition) says it means either a resident of
>Britain or an immigrant from there.
>
>Also, if it's a common enough "misconception" about the meaning of a word,
>then it actually BECOMES the accepted meaning of the word.
>
> > derived from the acronym POME - or Prisoner Of Mother England
>
>Macquarie again: derived from 'pomegranate' (rhyming slang for 'immigrant').
>
>So there are indeed many misconceptions around the word.
>
>Regards,
>Craig
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