Timeline for What do you call a generic person?
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| Nov 18, 2014 at 21:46 | comment | added | Gitty | And in the USA. | |
| Nov 15, 2014 at 7:19 | history | edited | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 15, 2014 at 7:07 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | It does read like you're saying "Tom, Dick and Harry" is used only in Wales, which is misleading. It's said all over the UK | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 20:06 | comment | added | Jules | Just commenting that "the man on the Clapham omnibus" is specifically a legal term in English law, intended to have the meaning of a perfectly ordinary person, but I have never heard it used outside of a legal context. Also, as it's somewhat ambiguous, the "in Wales" section of that list attaches to "Dai Jones" rather than "Tom, Dick and Harry" -- Dai is a common forename and Jones a common surname in Wales. | |
| Nov 14, 2014 at 13:57 | history | edited | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 14, 2014 at 13:51 | history | answered | user66974 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |