#2394: Contiguous 41 States

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Heading above the panel:]

The Contiguous 41 States

[A map of the United States, missing Delaware, Kansas, New Mexico, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota, along with Alaska and Hawaii.]

[Caption below the panel:]

Tired of being left off maps of the US, Alaska and Hawaii begin producing maps with other states missing, too.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Linguists, settling some inscrutable grudge, have been steadily sneaking more backdated synonyms for 'sharing borders' into the dictionary. They've added 'contiguous,' 'coterminous,' 'conterminous,' and next year they're adding 'conterguous.'

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