Timings

How come "Blimey!" is a word of shock or surprise in Nrit English then - at least it used to be. I'm Swedish myself, so I don't have an instant clue.

Speaking of Americans, Jedburgh of course was incredible. I really have to get the DVD, saw the series when it aired in Sweden in the eighties and I knew it was extraordinary, it pushed the boundaries of the medium as much as the first Monty Python shows. The ensemble of actors, the scenes from Northmoor and the fabulous, Hitchcock-like scene where Craven gets access to a computer hall with the intelligence databases, checks out the SIS notes on his daughter and on Northmoor, confirms some of his suspicions and then escapes by a hair's breadth - evocative as hell.
And the point where Jedburgh meets one of the company owners at a conference in Scotland, and the guy asks him "Hello Jedburgh, where's my plutonium?" The old mercenary just shrugs and gives a broad grin at him.

British Naval records show that the word comes from the 'pom-pom' on the tops of sailors' hats. The OED is always pushing the case for 'pomegranate' but this is not really credible because pomegranates were unusual in those days.

Sailors were issued limes and lime juice, both of which kept better than lemons, for the vitamin C which suppressed scurvy.

I assume your last piece is some kind of cheap dig, but you should maybe bear in mind that the Americans and Australians were not seafaring nations and were therefore not subject to the vitamin C deprivation.

The Dutch were, however, and they dealt with their problems by eating cabbages.