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).
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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