This raises many questions:<br><br>How many sides can something be surrounded by? <br>Can we say, &quot;Panama is surrounded by oceans on two sides&quot;? <br>Can we say, &quot;L.A. is surrounded by the Pacific on one side&quot;?<br>
Do we assume things have four sides? If so, why?<br>If a peninsula is bordered by water on three of four sides, is it surrounded at all?<br><br>Here&#39;s a somewhat related question: If a squirrel is clinging to the side of a large oak tree, and if you walk all the way around the tree trying to see the squirrel, who keeps moving to stay on the opposite side of the tree from you, then you have walked around the tree, but have you walked around the squirrel?<br>
<br>Dick<br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Carol Morrison <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?LOGON=A3%3Dind1109%26L%3DATEG%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D2878355%26B%3D--0016367f9df84e6c3e04ae2ee495%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div>This <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">morning</font> in class, the students and I came across a sentence in their grammar handbook that apparently contains a misusage of some sort that we could not identify:</div>

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<div><font face="courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">The Keweenaw Peninsula is surrounded on three sides by Lake Superior.</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma, new york, times, serif">The only explanation we could some up with is that &quot;three sides&quot; should be replaced with &quot;all sides&quot; because a peninsula only has three sides and an isthmus. Or does it have two sides?</font></div>

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<div><font face="Tahoma">Best-</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">Carol</font><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div>
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