[Leish-l] Leishmaniasis - sand fly or sandfly or sand-fly?

[Chang, Kwang-Poo]

Sensible to correct the mistake of stating "mosquito" as the vector for
leishmaniasis, but not sandfly or sand-fly. The latter is perfectly
understandable.

 

KP

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[mailto:leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br] On Behalf Of Carlos Brisola
Marcondes
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 5:52 AM
To: killickendrick
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Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Leishmaniasis - sand fly or sandfly or sand-fly?

 

Dear all

Sorry, but Dr. Bryceson may be mistaken, because I have just published a
paper on Nyssomyia neivai in TRSTMH utilising sand fly. And I published
one in ATMP, some years ago, with sandfly. If even in UK it is
standardized, what can we non-native of English-speaking countries do?

 

Carlos Brisola Marcondes

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	From: killickendrick <mailto:killickendrick at wanadoo.fr>  

	To: Anthony Bryceson <mailto:a.bryceson at doctors.net.uk>  

	Cc: fred opperdoes <mailto:fred.opperdoes at uclouvain.be>  ;
Leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br ; Chang, Kwang-Poo
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	Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:38 PM

	Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Leishmaniasis - sand fly or sandfly or
sand-fly?

	 

	As usual, Anthony's done his homework before reaching a
decision. Very helpful.

	But, although i was persuaded by my American friends to use two
words, let's not treat this too seriously. We all know what we mean and
this is not taxonomy (which gets really rough!). 

	Bob K-K

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		From: Anthony Bryceson
<mailto:a.bryceson at doctors.net.uk>  

		To: BobKillick-Kendrick
<mailto:killickendrick at wanadoo.fr>  

		Cc: Carlos Costa <mailto:chncosta at gmail.com>  ; Chang,
Kwang-Poo <mailto:KwangPoo.Chang at rosalindfranklin.edu>  ; fred opperdoes
<mailto:fred.opperdoes at uclouvain.be>  ; Leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br 

		Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:06 AM

		Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Leishmaniasis - sand fly or
sandfly or sand-fly?

		 

		The academics have spoken, but us lay writers could be
forgiven for getting it "wrong". Usage accepts sandfly on this side of
the Atlantic. As Bob pointed out the divide between sandfly  and
sand-fly is the Atlantic Ocean. The Oxford English Dictionary and
Collins offer only sandfly, Webster offers only sand fly. Encyclopedia
Britannica uses sand fly, but then includes midges and gnats. Wikipedia
is utterly confused. Trawling the publications of the  famous ento-
parasito-logists showed that British journals such as TRSTMH use
sandfly, Continental journals mostly use sandfly when publishing in
English, but some such as Parassitologia seem a little more flexible and
use either. US journals use sand fly, but adopted the style at
different times: AJTMH in abut 1983, Science and Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz
by about 2000. I found only one sand-fly. So select your journal
carefully if you have strong feelings. 

		

		Anthony Bryceson

		 

		 

		 

		 

		 

		On 25 Mar 2009, at 07:00, BobKillick-Kendrick wrote:

		
		
		

		

		The Americans use sand fly. The convention is that two
words indicate a dipteran - eg. sand fly, tsetse fly, horse fly, stable
fly etc, - whereas one word indicates a non-dipteran - eg. mayfly,
damselfly, hoverfly etc. It seems sensible to me and I follow it. [This
is opposed by Chris Schofield. But he works on reduvidbugs
(conenosebugs)!]

		Bob Killick-Kendrick

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			From: Carlos Costa <mailto:chncosta at gmail.com> 

			To: Chang, Kwang-Poo
<mailto:KwangPoo.Chang at rosalindfranklin.edu> 

			Cc: fred opperdoes
<mailto:fred.opperdoes at uclouvain.be>  ; Leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br

			Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:46 PM

			Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Leishmaniasis -
Argentina: epidemic potential

			 

			To: all

			 

			By the way, what is the right English writing:
sand fly or sandfly? Is it a matter of England vs. US?

			 

			Carlos H.

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