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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As usual, Anthony's done his homework before
reaching a decision. Very helpful.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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!). </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bob K-K</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=a.bryceson@doctors.net.uk
href="mailto:a.bryceson@doctors.net.uk">Anthony Bryceson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=killickendrick@wanadoo.fr
href="mailto:killickendrick@wanadoo.fr">BobKillick-Kendrick</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=chncosta@gmail.com
href="mailto:chncosta@gmail.com">Carlos Costa</A> ; <A
title=KwangPoo.Chang@rosalindfranklin.edu
href="mailto:KwangPoo.Chang@rosalindfranklin.edu">Chang, Kwang-Poo</A> ; <A
title=fred.opperdoes@uclouvain.be
href="mailto:fred.opperdoes@uclouvain.be">fred opperdoes</A> ; <A
title=Leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br
href="mailto:Leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br">Leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:06
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Leish-l] Leishmaniasis -
sand fly or sandfly or sand-fly?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>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.
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<DIV>On 25 Mar 2009, at 07:00, BobKillick-Kendrick wrote:</DIV><BR
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<DIV>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)!]</DIV>
<DIV>Bob Killick-Kendrick</DIV>
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href="mailto:chncosta@gmail.com">Carlos Costa</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
title=KwangPoo.Chang@rosalindfranklin.edu
href="mailto:KwangPoo.Chang@rosalindfranklin.edu">Chang,
Kwang-Poo</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B><SPAN
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title=fred.opperdoes@uclouvain.be
href="mailto:fred.opperdoes@uclouvain.be">fred opperdoes</A><SPAN
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href="mailto:Leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br">Leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br</A></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:46
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Re: [Leish-l] Leishmaniasis -
Argentina: epidemic potential</DIV>
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<DIV>To: all</DIV>
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<DIV>By the way, what is the right English writing: sand fly or sandfly?
Is it a matter of England vs. US?</DIV>
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<DIV>Carlos H.<BR><BR></DIV>
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