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you can argue about it, i guess, but 'microscopies' just sounds weird to
me. it's an area of study, you wouldn't write about molecular and cellular
biologies.
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Raghu Parthasarathy <
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> It’s a bit strange to send a grammar question to this email list, but
> since it deals with microscopy and has perhaps come up in other contexts, I
> thought someone reading may have insights. We’ve written a paper whose
> title contains the phrase ‘[...] using confocal and light sheet
> fluorescence microscopies’ (i.e. in which we use both confocal microscopy
> and light sheet fluorescence microscopy to image things). A reviewer
> suggests replacing “microscopies” with “microscopy.” I think
> “microscopies” sounds better, but as a counter-point, I would think “...
> comparing left-handed and right-handed calligraphy” would sound better than
> “calligraphies” if I were writing about handwriting. Thoughts? (Sorry for
> stretching the boundaries of the confocal list – hopefully it’s not too
> annoying!)
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> Thanks,
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> Raghu
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