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

Manoel Barral Netto mbarral at bahia.fiocruz.br
Fri Feb 19 21:37:36 BRST 2016


What's in a name? that which we call a sandfly or sand fly
By any other name would transmit Leishmania as annoying;

On Feb 19, 2016, at 5:57 PM, Dr. Albert Descoteaux <albert.descoteaux at iaf.inrs.ca<mailto:albert.descoteaux at iaf.inrs.ca>> wrote:

Dear Carlos,

I have to confess that over the years, we have used both "sandfly" and "sand fly" in our publications.  I am not sure whether this apparent lack of consistency was due to transatlantic influences, or simply to an unvoluntary insouciance...

Cheers

Albert Descoteaux


Le 19 févr. 2016 à 12:07, Carlos Brisola Marcondes <cbrisolamarcondes at gmail.com<mailto:cbrisolamarcondes at gmail.com>> a écrit :

Dear all
  OK, sand fly is probably utilized on our side of Atlantic Ocean.
  And in Canada, that is linked to UK, but on the West side?

Carlos Brisola Marcondes

2016-02-18 17:54 GMT-02:00 David, John R. <jdavid at hsph.harvard.edu<mailto:jdavid at hsph.harvard.edu>>:



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Well, I have to add the Equator divide to the Atlantic Ocean divide in the conversation about sandfly versus sand fly.  Below the Equator and on the Western of the Atlantic Ocean, any little thing that flies and bites are called erroneously, I recognize, Mosquito, not Flies J.
Fortunately, for our papers we do not have to add this third linguistic quandary and have to deal only with the dilemma of sand fly versus sandfly.
Best to all.
acn






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From: Anthony Bryceson <a.bryceson at doctors.net.uk<mailto:a.bryceson at doctors.net.uk>>
Date: 2009-03-30 21:06 GMT-03:00
Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Leishmaniasis - sand fly or sandfly or sand-fly?
To: BobKillick-Kendrick <killickendrick at wanadoo.fr<mailto:killickendrick at wanadoo.fr>>
Cc: Carlos Costa <chncosta at gmail.com<mailto:chncosta at gmail.com>>, "Chang, Kwang-Poo" <KwangPoo.Chang at rosalindfranklin.edu<mailto:KwangPoo.Chang at rosalindfranklin.edu>>, fred opperdoes <fred.opperdoes at uclouvain.be<mailto:fred.opperdoes at uclouvain.be>>, Leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br<mailto:Leish-l at lineu.icb.usp.br>

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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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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