A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule

Eric Nielsen ericbarnak at GMAIL.COM
Wed Sep 1 06:18:24 UTC 2010


Someone who studies the origin of insect names?

Eric

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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>  On a completely different note: "entymologists"? Seriously?? This from
> a prescriptive grammarian?
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> On 8/31/2010 10:12 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
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> > I understand that entymologists refer to them as bed bugs (2 words)
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