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

[Anthony Bryceson]

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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carlos Costa
> To: Chang, Kwang-Poo
> Cc: fred opperdoes ; 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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