minus-squareFourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the "Joe Shmoe" of different cultures? Or the "John/Jane Smith"?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoSome others in the Anglosphere: Fred Bloggs - no idea where it’s from. Related to “bog” as in bog standard maybe? Tom, Dick and Harry - is ages old. Even as far back as Shakespeare you can see the triplet evolving. “Tom, Dicke, and Francis” : Henry IV, Part I linkfedilink
Some others in the Anglosphere:
Fred Bloggs - no idea where it’s from. Related to “bog” as in bog standard maybe?
Tom, Dick and Harry - is ages old. Even as far back as Shakespeare you can see the triplet evolving. “Tom, Dicke, and Francis” : Henry IV, Part I