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Sea vs ocean
Hello, I've been in the USA for a few years, where I had quite a few arguments over "ocean" or "sea" being the broader* term to describe, in lack of better term, any marine water mass. Any opinions?
*every sea is an ocean or every ocean is a sea.
*every sea is an ocean or every ocean is a sea.
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[nq:1]Hello, I've been in the USA for a few years, where I had quite a few arguments over "ocean" or ... of better term, any marine water mass. Any opinions?
- [nq:1]Hello, I've been in the USA for a few years, where I had quite a few arguments over "ocean" or ...
- of better term, any marine water mass.
- Any opinions?
- [/nq] Nonsense.
- The Black Sea isn't an ocean.
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[nq:1]Hello, I've been in the USA for a few years, where I had quite a few arguments over "ocean" or ... of better term, any marine water mass. Any opinions? *every sea is an ocean or every ocean is a sea.[/nq]
Nonsense. The Black Sea isn't an ocean. Nor is Lake Superior (a freshwater sea misnomered "lake").
** DAVE HATUNEN (Email Removed) ** * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow
Nonsense. The Black Sea isn't an ocean. Nor is Lake Superior (a freshwater sea misnomered "lake").
** DAVE HATUNEN (Email Removed) ** * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow
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[nq:1]Hello, I've been in the USA for a few years, where I had quite a few arguments over "ocean" or ... of better term, any marine water mass. Any opinions? *every sea is an ocean or every ocean is a sea.[/nq]
Ocean and sea can be used interchangably to describe the entirety of the earths salt water.
But in specific cases oceans are bigger than seas.
Ocean and sea can be used interchangably to describe the entirety of the earths salt water.
But in specific cases oceans are bigger than seas.
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[nq:1]Hello, I've been in the USA for a few years, where I had quite a few arguments over "ocean" or ... of better term, any marine water mass. Any opinions? *every sea is an ocean or every ocean is a sea.[/nq]
When I am going to the beach, normally at Brighton (UK), I say I am going to the seaside. My cousins in New York nearly always say they are going to 'the ocean'.
Of course, for them
When I am going to the beach, normally at Brighton (UK), I say I am going to the seaside. My cousins in New York nearly always say they are going to 'the ocean'.
Of course, for them
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[nq:2]Hello, I've been in the USA for a few years, ... sea is an ocean or every ocean is a sea.[/nq]
[nq:1]When I am going to the beach, normally at Brighton (UK), I say I am going to the seaside. My ... by water that, apart from the southwest, is called sea. I have never said I am going to the ocean.[/nq]
Do we have a correspondent in the Outer Hedbrides to advise us on local usage?
[nq:1]When I am going to the beach, normally at Brighton (UK), I say I am going to the seaside. My ... by water that, apart from the southwest, is called sea. I have never said I am going to the ocean.[/nq]
Do we have a correspondent in the Outer Hedbrides to advise us on local usage?
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[nq:2]Hello, I've been in the USA for a few years, ... sea is an ocean or every ocean is a sea.[/nq]
[nq:1]When I am going to the beach, normally at Brighton (UK), I say I am going to the seaside. My ... course, for them, it *is* the ocean. The US is not bounded by any seas as far as names go:[/nq]
Carribean Sea? Bering Sea? Beaufort Sea? Chukchi Sea?
[nq:1]and the UK is bounded by wat
[nq:1]When I am going to the beach, normally at Brighton (UK), I say I am going to the seaside. My ... course, for them, it *is* the ocean. The US is not bounded by any seas as far as names go:[/nq]
Carribean Sea? Bering Sea? Beaufort Sea? Chukchi Sea?
[nq:1]and the UK is bounded by wat
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[nq:1]"...Like a bird on the wing, over the ocean to Skye", or whatever they're going to call it now.[/nq]
It seems to have shrunk to a sea this last century.
No, no, you can't e-mail me with the nono.
It seems to have shrunk to a sea this last century.
No, no, you can't e-mail me with the nono.
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[nq:2]When I am going to the beach, normally at Brighton ... not bounded by any seas as far as names go:[/nq]
[nq:1]Carribean Sea? Bering Sea? Beaufort Sea? Chukchi Sea?[/nq]
The Caribbean doesn't abound the USA; the Gulf of Mexico does.
I take it back. I see the Caribbean abounds Puerto Rico, assuming that counts.
** DAVE HATUNEN (Email Removed) ** * Tucson Arizona, out
[nq:1]Carribean Sea? Bering Sea? Beaufort Sea? Chukchi Sea?[/nq]
The Caribbean doesn't abound the USA; the Gulf of Mexico does.
I take it back. I see the Caribbean abounds Puerto Rico, assuming that counts.
** DAVE HATUNEN (Email Removed) ** * Tucson Arizona, out
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[nq:1] The Caribbean doesn't[/nq]
[nq:1]abound[/nq]
I thought it was a typo, but ..
[nq:1]the USA; the Gulf of Mexico does. I take it back. I see the Caribbean[/nq]
the second time
[nq:1]abounds[/nq]
I wondered if it was pondial.
Is it? (I would never write "abound" in such a context.)
[nq:1]Puerto Rico, assuming that counts.[/nq]
athel (BrE)
[nq:1]abound[/nq]
I thought it was a typo, but ..
[nq:1]the USA; the Gulf of Mexico does. I take it back. I see the Caribbean[/nq]
the second time
[nq:1]abounds[/nq]
I wondered if it was pondial.
Is it? (I would never write "abound" in such a context.)
[nq:1]Puerto Rico, assuming that counts.[/nq]
athel (BrE)
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[nq:2] The Caribbean doesn't[/nq]
Whatever happened to "main", as in "the bounding main".
And does "bounding" here mean it leaps and bounds, or that it limits the land it encloses.
Whatever happened to "main", as in "the bounding main".
And does "bounding" here mean it leaps and bounds, or that it limits the land it encloses.
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