Technically, there actually were tons of cars on the road during the Middle Ages. The English word "car" (related to cart and chariot) pre-dates the automobile and was used in Chaucer's time to describe what we would now call wagons (a word borrowed from the Dutch at the end of the Renaissance). So, Johnson doesn't even get that right.
Technically, there actually were tons of cars on the road during the Middle Ages. The English word "car" (related to cart and chariot) pre-dates the automobile and was used in Chaucer's time to describe what we would now call wagons (a word borrowed from the Dutch at the end of the Renaissance). So, Johnson doesn't even get that right.
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