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Igel

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7. I assume you mean, in my mostly-mainstream dialect, "away from the coast."

Reply to we can do it (Reply #5)

Wed Jun 18, 2025, 06:25 PM

Jun 18

If something's "off the coast," you're talking Catalina, Assateague, Florida Keys, Cozumel.

Beyond the "offing".

Not Riverside, Bethesda, Central Florida, Oaxaca.

Not a big quibble, but still ... the subject line seemed inside-out.

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