On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:41:54 -1000, David Ross wrote:
> That is why "contiguous" is not quite correct; California and New York
> are not contiguous. They are, however, conterminous!
Webster @ http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/conterminous does
not agree with you. Is it your position that New York is discontiguous
because the East River is in another State - that New York State is all
dry land and any wet bits must be somewhere else? I guess that every
state must have at least one river, lake or pond with an island so perhaps
by your interesting abuse of the language no states can be contiguous.
Tony
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