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

[Carlos Costa]

This very interesting discussion occurred almost seven years ago, when both
Bob and Richard were still among us.

But is still so present and exciting that I decided to ask permission to
bring it again for the youngsters in the field.

Cheers,

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Anthony Bryceson <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>
Cc: Carlos Costa <chncosta at gmail.com>, "Chang, Kwang-Poo" <
KwangPoo.Chang at rosalindfranklin.edu>, fred opperdoes <
fred.opperdoes at uclouvain.be>, 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

----- Original Message -----
*From:* Carlos Costa <chncosta at gmail.com>
*To:* Chang, Kwang-Poo <KwangPoo.Chang at rosalindfranklin.edu>
*Cc:* fred opperdoes <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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