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https://jeffollerton.wordpress.com/2...or-bumble-bee/
I recall making a conscious decision to change from using two words to one about a decade ago. I likely still use both :p
G.
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The pick of today's social media brings you .....
https://jeffollerton.wordpress.com/2...or-bumble-bee/
I recall making a conscious decision to change from using two words to one about a decade ago. I likely still use both :p
G.
Why did you change to 'honeybee'? We've chatted about the reason for 'honey bee' being two words on here before (entomology: it is a bee, as opposed to, say, 'butterfly' where a butterfly isn't a fly).
I would have suggested that the shift towards 'honeybee' must be as a result of social media with its vast contribution of people who can't spell - but it started in 1921. So, I don't know ...
Kitta
I think that some researchers I respected were using the single word and I had to make a decision for some documents I was writing.
I see that this paper (I'm one of many authors) splits it in two.
http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/373...R_51_1_12L.pdf
Maybe I'll switch back again before I'm done. Certainly SNHBS requires the two-word option for its title.
Gavin...you're bored! lol Go and look at the bees flying.
Lol, yeah ... but I *was* watching them flying from the nucs at the front of the house earlier. Off to help out at the beginners class now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calluna4u
Is it not one of those US/UK distinctions?
You say potato and I say tomato or kidney beans or whatever...
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Originally Posted by Jon
I'm pretty sure it explained that way in one of the books I've got.
It is for sure honey bees in the US.
I don't think so - not according to that Ngram viewer mentioned in Gavin's link. If I use it for 'English', the change-over from honey bee to honeybee happened in 1921; for American English in the '30s; and for British English in 1947, followed by three spikes in favour of honeybee, and then ended up about equal in 2000.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
BTW, I'm not bored, C4U.
Kitta