MDDM Chapter 17: Notes, Question

[Dave Monroe]

But, hey, thanks for looking this one up, I probably
wasn't even going to get around to it here ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> "Honorable John" (175.20) Another reference to the
> East India Company, which was known both as "John
> Company" and the "Honorable East India Company". It
> is said that the "John" in 'John Company' is a
> perversion of 'Hon', but it is possible that the
> name is allied to the familiar John Bull, the
> nickname for an Englishman or Englishmen
> collectively. The name 'John Bull' is used
> in Dr John Arbuthnot's satire, _Law is a Bottomless
> Pit_ (1712), republished as _The History of John
> Bull_. Arbuthnot did not invent the name but
> established it. (Brewer's)

As I hunt desperately for something I wanted to post
on sign theory and the Eucharist ... 


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