According to Answers.com or Wiki answers:
"A piece of land that is surrounded by water on only three sides and connected to a main land mass on one side is called a peninsula. Florida would be a good example."
And from www.enchantedlearning.com:
"A peninsula is a body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides."
From dictionary.com:
Peninsula-an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
Dick, you raise some very interesting questions. I do think that I can picture a peninsula more accurately by describing it as "surrounded on three sides" by water, otherwise, "surrounded by" does seem to imply that water would completely encircle the land mass making it an island.
Since the "problem" sentence occurred in the textbook under word "usage" problems, I would concur that the word being misused is surrounded, which is what I think I remember Bill saying.
Carol
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