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Mar: I dropped it more to gage the reaction than anything else. Invariably one or two purists will become unhinged and even threaten to ban me for such unweblike conduct

But now that my location appears in the block to the left, "onshore" should present no further problems

Nor "offshore," which means anywhere but onshore




Hmmm... ok, 'cept "onshore" and "offshore" seem to me to be much too subjective to be of any use as geographical locators



Not just to you. It is obvious that they are not intended as such, but as bait, being tranparently inflammatory with the obnoxious uscentrism of their use. That spells troll in my book.



Not just in yours. Said troll runs the risk of being banned from wordorigins.

PS love the coinage uscentrism, Max!