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What (who) is john q public - definition
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John Q Public; Jane Q. Public; Jane Q Public; Joe Blow; John Q. Citizen; Jane Q. Citizen; John Citizen; Joe Q. Public; J6P; Jane Citizen; John Q. Taxpayer; Jane Q. Taxpayer; Joe Doakes; Public, John; Public, John Q.; John Public
John Q. Public
John Q. Public (and several similar names; see the Variations section below) is a generic name and placeholder name, especially in American English, to denote a hypothetical member of society, deemed a "common man", who is presumed to represent the randomly selected "man on the street".
John Q. Public
¦ noun North American term for Joe Public.
Q with stroke
![Q with diagonal stroke in [[Doulos SIL]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Qwithdiagonalstroke (cropped).png?width=200 "Q with diagonal stroke in [[Doulos SIL]]")
![French-language]] extract of page 9 of [[Joachim du Bellay]]'s 1549 work ''[[La Défense et illustration de la langue française]]''. The text of the extract is: ''Barbares anciẽnement etoint nõmez ceux, '''ꝗ''' ĩeptemẽt ꝑloint Grec.''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ꝗ used in a sentence (French).jpg?width=200 "French-language]] extract of page 9 of [[Joachim du Bellay]]'s 1549 work ''[[La Défense et illustration de la langue française]]''. The text of the extract is: ''Barbares anciẽnement etoint nõmez ceux, '''ꝗ''' ĩeptemẽt ꝑloint Grec.''")
LETTER OF THE LATIN ALPHABET
Q̵; Ꝗ; Ꝗꝗ; Ꝙ
Q with stroke (Ꝗ, ꝗ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from writing the letter Q with the addition of a bar through the letter's descender. The letter was used by scribes during the Middle Ages, where it was employed primarily as an abbreviationa modern parallel of this would be abbreviating the word "and" with an ampersand (&).
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John Q. Public
John Q. Public (and several similar names; see the Variations section below) is a generic name and placeholder name, especially in American English, to denote a hypothetical member of society, deemed a "common man", who is presumed to represent the randomly selected "man on the street".
The equivalent term in British English is Joe Public.
