what as in "septic tank"
charlie

Ok, so from now on they are septics. My mate was a pongo and he always referred to Scots as sweaties. To their faces. I watched Last of the Mohicans and they, the film makers, seemed to imply that Yankee was a corruption of English. The old dude says yenglees.

yankees=
Jan Kaas
john cheese from the dutch and huguenot immigrants to "new holland"

Pom is pretty unclear etymologically.
Prisoner of Mother England?
WOGS apparently is from the days of the suez canal where the workers had it stencilled on their uniforms
"Working on Government Service"
go on now- snopes me i dare ya

It is short for Yankee.
The origin of Yankee has been the subject of much debate, but the most likely
source is the Dutch name Janke, meaning 'little Jan' or 'little John,' a nickname
that dates back to the 1680s. Perhaps because it was used as the name of pirates,
the name Yankee came to be used as a term of "contempt". It was used this way in
the 1750s by General James Wolfe, the British general who secured British domination
of North America by defeating the French at Quebec. The name may have been applied
to New Englanders as an extension of an original use referring to Dutch settlers
living along the Hudson River. Whatever the reason, Yankee is first recorded in
1765 as a name for an inhabitant of New England. The first recorded use of the term
by the British to refer to Americans in general appears in the 1780s, in a letter by
Lord Horatio Nelson, no less. Around the same time it began to be abbreviated to
Yank. During the American Revolution, American soldiers adopted this "term of derision"
as a term of national pride. The derisive use nonetheless remained alive and even
intensified in the South during the Civil War, when it referred not to all Americans
but to those loyal to the Union.

charlie

Oriental seems to be another word that's normal in Britain but gets the Septic's knickers in a twist. We refer to the Indian subcontinent as Asians.

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WOG= western oriental gentleman ?

charlie

Aussies call Bubbles wogs

"the wogs start at calais"
George Wigg

yanks call east asians oriental too, though they are due west of usa

The old major in Faulty Towers offers a clear distinction.

the British general who secured British domination
of North America

for a piffling moment