"pebbledash" -- WOTY?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/19/2009 03:20 PM, Baker, John wrote:
>         The earliest British example is from an 1850 novel.  Of course,
>it may be that Google Books tends to favor American sources.

Only fair -- the OED tends to favor British sources.

Joel

(To be fair to Jesse, perhaps that should be "tended".)

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