Thread: Is it racist to call John-James, skippy?
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Old 13-08-2010, 01:21 PM #4
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Quick question. Do British people find it offensive to be called a pom or pome? Considering where the word originates from (people who were deported to Oz were called "Prisoners of mother England" or pome) I would have thought it would be offensive to Australians, not the other way around.
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