Talk:Archbald Pothole State Park

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[edit] Usage of term "Pothole"

In UK English usage, a pothole is not a hole worn by flowing water (as stated in the article) but a vertical shaft extending from a cave formed by chemical erosion (e.g. Gaping Ghyll[1], many of whose surface entrances have the suffix "Pot" signifying "Pothole"). Fluvial erosional features of this magnitude are not found in the UK as there were no large ice-dammed lakes in the UK during the last glaciation; I assume (from the description in the text)that this feature arose during the draining of one of the lakes dammed by the Laurentide glaciers. I presume that the article reflects common US usage, but it may be as well to have the distinction made. --APRCooper 21:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

• Most in the United States think of a hole in the road / street / highway (especially after winter) when they hear pothole. I will try to update the article a bit to reflect these meanings. Thanks, Ruhrfisch 12:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
• That usage is also commonplace in the UK, but the term is not used of natural features of the kind described here, because we don't have any!--APRCooper 12:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)