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Hi vsmith Excuse me butting in on your question to Ian but I thought you might just be interested in a "South African" take. The legend in this country is that in the 1900 Boer War between the South African Boers (farmers) and the British (Redcoats) fre***roops arriving from England were not accustomed to the harsh African sun and very quickly became bright red in the neck and face. This led to the coining of two derisive nicknames for the sunburned British soldier. The one was "rooinek" meaning "red neck" which remains an insult in this country to this day and the other was "Pommie" as in "red as a pomegranate". [:P]
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