extinction vs local extinction vs extirpation etc.

[Michael Gochfeld]

Anne and Chris have given us several alternatives to include in requiems.  No,
I didn't make up "extotion", nor the active form "extoe" which I presume meant
to wipe out.  I think it was actually a letter in Science, and the late John
Farrand, well known philologist, might have been its author.
 
Mike Gochfeld
 
Anne Kilmer wrote:
 
> Banjaxed is a good word, and not overused. Say these mussels are
> banjaxed in the Gulf? No, I guess not.
> There had better not be a word extotion. I hope you just now made that
> up.
> Snuffed? (Let us all now, in chorus, do the dead parrot skit from Monty
> Python, looking for suitable words. Wasn't that fun?)
> If indeed the Esquimaux
> Have a dozen words for snow,
> Dwellers in Howondaland
> Have as many terms for sand.
> For us, whose line goes on and on,
> Dead is dead, and gone is gone.
>
> Expunged? Wiped out?
> Ah. vanished is good. Chris is right.
> Anne Kilmer
> South Florida
>
> Michael Gochfeld wrote:
> >
> > Regardless of ethymological correctness, "extirpation" was once in
> > widespread use for the elimination of a local population or probably
> > more often for the elimination of a species from a geographic entity.
> > Thus a species may be "extirpated" from New Jersey.  It does seem that
> > "locally extinct" is being used more widely.  Someone once published a
> > short column (perhaps in Science) suggesting the word "extotion", but it
> > never took off.
> >
> > "Extirpation" was also used to describe campaigns to eliminate exotic
> > species although I suppose "elimination" would suffice.
> >
> > M. Gochfeld
> >
> >
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