Talk:Bodmin

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bodmin - town?!

what about douglas adams' bodmin?

http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html

can somebody make disambiguation structure - i can't seem to figure out how

yes I can confirm (having lived there for the first 19 years of my life) that Bodmin is indeed a town! I don't really think a disambiguation page is really necessary. I followed that link that you gave, and a lot of the words in this "dictionary" are place names (Boscastle, Aberystwyth, Brecon and Bradford to name a few), so not only would it be impractical to set up disambiguation page and a separate article page for all these meanings, but I don't reckon a word mentioned in a book really qualifies a new article. The meaning of Life was a good book though! Alex 23:33, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

All I can say that a low of people use the word 'bodmin' in the sense suggested by Adams, while negligible number even know that a town with that name exists. chuck 20:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I suppose you could argue that the Doc_Martin series uses the word 'bodmin' to refer to someone that has a mental problem might mean an alternative meaning is warranted but as I believe that all such references were removed from the second series due to complaints, perhaps it isn't necessary after all! Thickycat 10:31, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Well Bodmin does have a psychiatric hospital (St Lawrences), although now it is only small, it used to be a lot larger, and I believe it once had a secure unit as well. This would explain why the word 'bodmin' might be used to refer to a person with mental illness, but I was not aware of any such colloquialism whilst I lived there. Alex 23:57, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Can someone block this user: 86.136.41.45 i have found them abusing the Bodmin page.

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