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

[killickendrick]

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
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Anthony Bryceson 
  To: BobKillick-Kendrick 
  Cc: Carlos Costa ; Chang, Kwang-Poo ; fred opperdoes ; 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
      ----- 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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