Re: The opportunity for Delphi


Err pardon me, but is "early English immigrants" a euphemism for criminals?

Not in this case :-) The term seems more recent than transportation days. No-one is 100% sure though.

All these many years I thought it had something to do with a propensity for potatoes

One of the derivations is from pomme de terre, which also seems to have no supporting evidence. Certainly all my old relatives (my maternal grandparents were born in the 19th century) subscribed to the pomegranate theory (which doesn't make it true either).

and now you tell me it all has to do with their being from Redmond.<G>

Eh?


Cheers,
Jim Cooper

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