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I am a Canadian and use Tidal Current, although we do call that thing
off the coast the "Gulf Stream".

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From: Navigation Mailing List
[mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM] On Behalf Of Jared Sherman
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 2:18 PM
To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
Subject: Re: Currents & Streams, was: DR thread from Nov-Dec '04


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Pedants in Canada and other places may say tidal stream, but as
Bowditch, NOS, and NOAA all accept and use the term "tidal current"
within the US, and I'm a Damned Colonial in the US, the correct pedantic
term *here* is "tidal current".

Remember, the value in a name is to identify the person using it--not
simply the object being named. Torch, fag, tube, valve,
underground...Why shouldn't our natuical terms reflect their user, too?

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term is useful only among technicians. Here, you will hear boaters,
fishermen, and even Coasties (USCG) use both terms interchangeably.
Lacking the Academie Francaise, we Colonists actually do determine
propriety by common usage. Give the dictionaries a decade or two, and
the common usage becomes the definition they move up to number one.

I don't mind the rest of the world seeing things in different terms,
after all, US and Canadian bouyage and navigation marks are "backwards"
versus the rest of the world. Yet somehow they continue to suffice for
their purposes.

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