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Originally posted by Not Bob
Debate? It's the Gulf of Mexico. If it was the ocean, they wouldn't call it that.
AoN, there was some Canadian writng on the NYT op-ed page the other day expressing incredulity at the idea that the US won the War of 1812. I think that we may need to burn Toronto again, or send the USS Constitution sink some herring boats or something.
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Uh, is a gulf a type of separate body of water, like a lake or a pond or a sea? I thought it was a name for a portion of a larger body of water. Huh. Like, the Gulf of Mexico in the Atlantic Ocean.
ETA at least one dictionary defines a gulf as "a part of an ocean or sea extending into the land."
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/gulf
