<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This very interesting discussion occurred almost seven years ago, when both Bob and Richard were still among us.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">But is still so present and exciting that I decided to ask permission to bring it again for the youngsters in the field.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Anthony Bryceson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.bryceson@doctors.net.uk">a.bryceson@doctors.net.uk</a>></span><br>Date: 2009-03-30 21:06 GMT-03:00<br>Subject: Re: [Leish-l] Leishmaniasis - sand fly or sandfly or sand-fly?<br>To: BobKillick-Kendrick <<a href="mailto:killickendrick@wanadoo.fr">killickendrick@wanadoo.fr</a>><br>Cc: Carlos Costa <<a href="mailto:chncosta@gmail.com">chncosta@gmail.com</a>>, "Chang, Kwang-Poo" <<a href="mailto:KwangPoo.Chang@rosalindfranklin.edu">KwangPoo.Chang@rosalindfranklin.edu</a>>, fred opperdoes <<a href="mailto:fred.opperdoes@uclouvain.be">fred.opperdoes@uclouvain.be</a>>, <a href="mailto:Leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br">Leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br</a><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word">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.<div><div> <span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div><div>Anthony Bryceson</div></div><br></div><br></div><br></div></span><br> </div><br><div><div>On 25 Mar 2009, at 07:00, BobKillick-Kendrick wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><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><blockquote style="padding-right:0px;padding-left:5px;margin-left:5px;border-left-color:rgb(0,0,0);border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid;margin-right:0px"><div style="font:normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-color:rgb(228,228,228);font:normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial;background-position:initial initial"><b>From:</b><span> </span><a title="chncosta@gmail.com" href="mailto:chncosta@gmail.com" target="_blank">Carlos Costa</a></div><div style="font:normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial"><b>To:</b><span> </span><a title="KwangPoo.Chang@rosalindfranklin.edu" href="mailto:KwangPoo.Chang@rosalindfranklin.edu" target="_blank">Chang, Kwang-Poo</a></div><div style="font:normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial"><b>Cc:</b><span> </span><a title="fred.opperdoes@uclouvain.be" href="mailto:fred.opperdoes@uclouvain.be" target="_blank">fred opperdoes</a><span> </span>;<span> </span><a title="Leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br" href="mailto:Leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br" target="_blank">Leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br</a></div><div style="font:normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial"><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:46 PM</div><div style="font:normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial"><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [Leish-l] Leishmaniasis - Argentina: epidemic potential</div><div><br></div><div>To: all</div><div> </div><div>By the way, what is the right English writing: sand fly or sandfly? Is it a matter of England vs. US?</div><div> </div><div>Carlos H.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2</div></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>Leish-l mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br" target="_blank">Leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br</a><br><a href="http://lineu.icb.usp.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/leish-l" target="_blank">http://lineu.icb.usp.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/leish-l</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Carlos H. N. 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