Liam Proven wrote:
> [...]
> Embarrassingly, for a one-time biologist, it took me years to work out
> /why/ Microsoft became "Vole".
>
> The British common field vole, you see, is technically called
> /Microtus agrestis/.
> [...]
Hello, Liam.
Well, I'm a biologist turned bioinformatician and I didn't know about
that either - but, I do have an excuse: I was a plant biologist ;-)
Bye,
Tony.
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