After this past Tuesday's post I started grinding on the word pothole. I thought maybe the word came from the hole being like someone had taken a cooking pot out of the road leaving a hole,but soon discarded that idea in favor of looking at the etymology online. Pot was from Middle English and the meaning was a deep hole or mine often from peat digging, it also referred to geological features in glaciers and gravel beds. It wasn't until around 1909 that it was combined with hole to become the compound word we all know and dread in today speak,"pothole".
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| This pothole reminds me of the outline of Texas...so if you drove into it you could tell everyone you hit a pothole as big as Texas! |
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