Talk:Obadiah Bull

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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.")

MacAuslan (talk) 10:53, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

WPBio?

Should this article even be under Wikiproject Biography? Rpyle731^talk 09:10, 16 September 2010 (UTC)