![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordcolliery - n., a coal mine, including its physical plant and outbuildings.
I'm not sure why everyone's so keen to include that qualifier, but so they do. Derived ultimately from the Old English form of the word coal, in use in this form since at least 1635.
---L.
I'm not sure why everyone's so keen to include that qualifier, but so they do. Derived ultimately from the Old English form of the word coal, in use in this form since at least 1635.
---L.
