Ahhhh yes but to be perfectly correct the name should be in italics or
underlined and there should be a full stop (period?) after the E denoting
abbreviation. Thus
E. coli (sorry my Email does not allow italics) but only AFTER the name has
been mentioned in full the first time.
In Australia we pronounce it Esh er e shi a. But the correct pronounciation
should be as per the language of "Escherich" after whom the bug was named.
Any ideas from our European friends about this??
Regards,
Dr Geoff Crawford
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Jennifer Lynn Giel <jlgiel at umich.edu> wrote in message
news:s71R3.829$4G.137484 at news.itd.umich.edu...
> : On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 10:44:59 GMT, James Ross Cooke
> : <ucbejrc at socrates-a.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> :>But everybody knows the difference between E coli and Email anyway so
why dont
> :>you just say E coli?
>> Sadly, not everyone does know the difference. CNN once spelled it
> "e-coli." [sigh...]
>> Jen
