Friday 25 March 2016

Prochronism: Sussex folk were first to predict our Queen’s accession in 1909.

Prochronism: an anachronism marked by the assignment of an event to a date earlier than the actual historical one.
They call us ‘silly Sussex’ but farsighted Sussex folk are not so silly as to fail to celebrate their future Queen almost half a century before her coronation. The loyal Shoreham fisherman who named this boat (photographed in 1909) was clearly gifted with uncanny crystal-gazing vision (if not a command of orthodox spelling).


A serendipitous find, the original postcard snapshot has the head of our Queen’s great-grandfather on the half-penny stamp affixed to the reverse.  (The boy in the photo is the addressee ; the photo is by his father who is the postcard’s sender.) 

For other accounts of no less subtle precognition in Sussex, see a notable Sussex-raised precursor of the science of geochronology (Sussex Exodus of Altisonant Rats) . . .

http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/sussex-exodus-of-altisonant-frogs.html

and Sussex-born precursors in the parsing of the possessive pronoun in the Western demotic of Hollywood (Cold Comfort Conjugation in my Darkest Sussex. . .
http://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/cold-comfort-conjugation-in-my-darkest.html


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