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WA and BC geographical naming authorities have now officially adopted the Salish Sea nomenclature. (For those who don't know, the "Salish Sea" is the name that was proposed recently as a colletive name for the inland waterway including the Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and adjoining bodies. I like the idea -- first, it creates a collective term for three bodies of water that always seemed a little arbitrarily divided (espescially the Sound and the SoG); second, the naming honors the many peoples who lived off these inland waters long before Puget, Barkley, or Vancouver came to "discover" them. It's yet to be seen whether this'll catch on in common usage, but I'll be using it.