Talk:Jobsworth

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This seems a pretty accurate description to me, although I haven't heard of the song cited.

Contents 1 OED 2 George Melly 3 idiom 4 "his" vs. "their" 5 2007-02-7 Automated pywikipediabot message

[edit] OED

The OED entry for Jobsworth is as follows.... http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/jobsworth?view=uk --LiamE 14:59, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] George Melly

I'm pretty sure Taylor's song comfortably predates the George Melly reference in the article. --Bonalaw 20:20, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] idiom

Best to properly define the old idiom from which the term was extracted to explain recent derisive uses for the neologism. JonMar 16:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "his" vs. "their"

Ugh, what was wrong with "their"? The new version is ugly and I've never seen Wikipedia use this style {"him" with an asterisk and explanatory note}. I think this breaks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_self-references . The linguists on language log have a whole series of postings pointing out that singular uses of "they" and "their" are valid and used in eveything from Shakespeare to the King James bible (e.g. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001582.html ). I'll revert if no-one objects ...

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