Re: Word usage in group versus out of group.
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 22, 1999, 18:53 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Actually, the etymology has now been nailed down:
> immigrant > jimmygrant > pomegranate > pommy > pom.
Interesting, a kind of rhyming slang there in the jimmygrant -->
pomegranate? Was that pronounce "pomegran'te", that is, without the -a-
pronounce of -ate?
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