Ecologic Etymology

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/23/2012 07:56 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On May 23, 2012, at 5:34 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> > There is a Roxbury company advertising on Boston radio called
> > "Ecologic Entomology".  I propose an organization to be called
> > "Ecologic Etymology" -- whose charter is to remove polluting words
> > from the lexical atmosphere.
> >
> > Joel
> >
>I think the Lake Superior crowd beat you to the punch.

Larry, you'll have to occident me.  When I Google for "Ecologic
Etymology", what I'm given -- ugh! -- is perhaps 5,000 cases of
"Ecologic Entomology"!  "No results found for 'Ecologic
Etymology'".  I think I've beaten Lake Superior, at least with the
organizational name.

Joel
writing from New England

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