Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1919 — Great Bodies of Water Not Classed Under Seas [ARTICLE]

Great Bodies of Water Not Classed Under Seas

“What are the ‘seven seas?’” a subscriber asks, and adds: “I can find no explanation about them in cyclopedias or dictionaries.” There is indeed a great paucity of Information about this familiar expression, which is the title of one of Kipling’s books. A note, however, in the Oxford English Dictionary under “seven” reads: “The Seven seas —the Arctic, Antarctic, North and South Pacific, North and | South Atlantic, and Indian oceans.” Curiously, this dictionary does not mention the seven seas under the word “seas,” but gives instead “the four seas —the seas bounding Great Britain on the four sides.”— Outlook. . , e - ?