Re: Which is correct ?

[Barry Cooper <bjc3 at cornell_edu>]

I believe that this spelling issue was written up many years ago in JAKA, 
discussed by some of the great names in the hobby. The convention is to 
spell the full word killifish. Also conventionally, that is abbreviated to 
killie. I have no idea why the e was added. Maybe someone just thought it 
looked neater.

I am sometimes asked why I spelled the name of this list as killietalk. My 
rationale was that this is a list to talk about killies, that is "killie 
talk", which I shortened to killietalk to avoid the space in the name.

Barry

At 04:01 PM 1/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>In a message dated 1/9/03 3:55:49 PM, steve at nixhosting_com writes:
>
><< So which is correct? >>
>
>I am the wrong person to ask this. I have called it killy for many years and
>almost every one else calls it killi or killie. Only killifish is in the
>dictionary. Since it is a nickname for killifish, anything goes. IMHO
>
>Lee Harper
>Media, PA
>USA
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Barry J. Cooper, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University
Adjunct faculty, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University
Home address: 27505 Riggs Hill Rd., Sweet Home, OR 97386 (bjc3 at cornell_edu)


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