[Ads-l] "antedate" for _pothole_

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not questioning the anachronism in "Pemberley", but the implication
> that somehow a 'pot hole' can be a naturally occurring hole generally, but
> not in a road, at least not before 1889.
>

Were roads before 1889 generally paved as they are, today? Pot holes as
they occur in the paved streets of today don't naturally occur in dirt
roads and gravel roads.


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