One of my oldest and dearest friends--Amy Miller--who emigrated to England some years ago with some strange guy she met* is now a curator at the National Maritime Museum in London, and was interviewed on BBC Radio about the origin of the phrase "seven seas."
To hear her wax philosophic about Pliny the Elder, the Ancient Sumerians, and other maritime arcana, go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/questionsquestions.shtml. Above the picture of the presenter you will see a bluebar saying LISTEN AGAIN. Click on the red text and you will be able to listen to the program. Amy comes on around the 20-minute mark.
Now I feel like putting on the classic Echo & the Bunnymen track "Seven Seas."
*Actually, it was her husband, Steven Hodges, one of my best friends from college. They now have two children and a dwindling collection of cats.
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