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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. User:Sotonfc4life

Sport
The article on Bodmin could be improved if a section was added about sport. The Cornwall County Football Association has its HQ there.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 18:02, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Pic request.
Currently, we do not have any images of the general town! I believe one would fit nicely in the inf'box - can it be put in along with the map? Like what we have on Lostwithiel now, at the bottom. A few good candidates here: --Somchai Sun (talk) 20:25, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Town Twinning citation requested
The town twinning section contains a citation request.

I think this can be cleared up by this Google Streetview image of one of the border notices which contains the necessary details:

https://goo.gl/maps/aBLdnrogLcz

It can be seen that the two named locations in Europe are twin towns but the one in California is a "Sister City".

I hope that this helps. Presumably the original writer will make the necessary adjustments.

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"Bosvena" or "Bosvenegh"?
At the start of the article we're told the Cornish name of Bodmin is "Bosvena". But in the box on the right it's given as "Bosvenegh", and that's also the title of the Cornish version of the article. Which name is right?213.127.210.95 (talk) 16:44, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * There are a number of different variants of modern Cornish orthography: there will be information about them in Cornish language.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 22:07, 15 November 2017 (UTC)