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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Common names in other countries
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 08:29:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 21 08:29:05 1985
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Summary: 

The British equivalent of "John Q. Public" is "John Bull."
My Random House credits this to "John Bull," chief character in Arbuthnot's
allegory, "The History of John Bull" (1712.

--Lee Gold