E.O.Wilson, Etymologist

[Beverly Flanigan]

Oops, sorry, I didn't catch the first part of the interview.  Since I know
of E.O. as a sociobiologist, I assumed this wasn't him.

At 07:34 AM 7/1/2007, you wrote:
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>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:
> >> >
> >> >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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> >Interview here:
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> >http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11626223
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> >
> >--Ben Zimmer
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