E.O.Wilson, Etymologist

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/30/2007 10:29 PM, you wrote:
>On 6/30/07, Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at ohio.edu> wrote:
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>>At 09:53 AM 6/30/2007, sagehen wrote:
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>> >Scott Simon, no stranger to the mis-chosen, misused word, did it again:
>> >identified his guest, biologist E.O.Wilson, as an "etymologist" on Weekend
>> >Edition this morning (6/30).
>>
>>Actually, it wasn't E.O., though I don't remember his first name.  He was
>>an entomologist, talking about flies and pollination and such--hence the
>>"etymologist" gaffe.  Simon also used "whomever" as a subject, a typical
>>affectation for him.
>
>'Twas E.O. (who is indeed an entomologist).

Although perhaps lesser known today for that than as a sociobiologist
or biodiversiologist, even though he has written about ants several
times since his "Sociobiology".

Joel

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