Talk:Obadiah Bull
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[edit]The Oxford English Dictionary says (s.v. bull, n.4): "No foundation appears for ... the assertion of the ‘British Apollo’ (No. 22. 1708) that ‘it became a Proverb from the repeated Blunders of one Obadiah Bull, a Lawyer of London, who liv'd in the Reign of K. Henry the Seventh’.)" Equally, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contains no Obadiah Bull. This page should be deleted.
(OED gives the etymology "[Of unknown origin; cf. OF. boul, boule, bole fraud, deceit, trickery; mod.Icel. bull ‘nonsense’; also ME. bull BUL ‘falsehood’, and BULL v.3, to befool, mock, cheat.")
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[edit]Should this article even be under Wikiproject Biography? Rpyle731talk 09:10, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
If he did not exist we should not have him in categories gor people who did
[edit]If he did not exist we should not have him in categories for people who did. We really should not be cluttering categories for real people with people who were not real.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:36, 21 December 2024 (UTC)