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A Guide to Your 1816 Stagecoach Journey

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61 pointsbreathenew15 comments

Potentially interesting, but it was hard to read. The author needs to do a thorough proofread of this post, and potentially some editing.

And finish it - the journey so far seems to be from the yard to the road!

This post is a teaser that ends with a call to action to buy their book about stagecoaches.

Not very good teaser, no "the story continues in my book..."

And if this is the standard of the book there's big problems

The book is like that too. Actually a fantastic read and a highly recommended portal into the dawn of modernity, but jeez it could use some editing.

Very interesting. But, they meant “genteel” class and not “gentile” class, right?

Edit: I’m finding so many grammatical errors in this piece (“Coaches now were now better sprung”) that spelling errors are hardly surprising.

Yeah, I had a clever rejoinder having something to do with Jewish immigration rates in 1816...and then I read the rest of the article and realized that it was probably one of the less egregious errors in TFA.

It's an interesting article, no doubt, but be prepared to reread a few sentences. It's almost as annoying as the large amount of dns-prefetch going on to make sure those trackers have their names resolved upfront. :-)

On the topic of tickets, I've kept a plane ticket from the year 2000, and it's a bit amazing that a decade or so after needing to go a travel agency and getting a booklet (plane tickets back then had a page for each leg, usually a back cover and maybe a front cover), I can just use my phone to go to the airline's website (or a price comparison site), buy a ticket, do online check-in, and just load up the barcode to board the plane...

you yourself may have had a purl – a warming mixture of beer, gin, nutmeg and sugar before the journey

trying to imagine how that tastes

Bad. Probably really bad. I mean maybe a strong blonde ale, a floral gin, and you’d be ok, but still.

When I was an exchange student in Germany many years ago, my host mother gave me something very similar to this as a homespun cure for the common cold.

imagine the smell of people’s mouths inside the stagecoach

You monster

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