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Is It Honey Bee or Honeybee? Bumble Bee or Bumblebee? Who Decides the Common Names of Bees?

Kirk

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Abstract

Anyone writing in English about bees will immediately encounter the question of whether to spell the common names as one word or two. Is it “honey bee” or “honeybee”? Is it “bumble bee” or ­“bumblebee”? It is easy to be confused because both spellings are frequently encountered.

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Kirk. (2021). Is It Honey Bee or Honeybee? Bumble Bee or Bumblebee? Who Decides the Common Names of Bees?. Bee World, https://doi.org/10.1080/0005772X.2021.1982315

Acceptance Date Sep 14, 2021
Publication Date Oct 20, 2021
Journal Bee World
Print ISSN 0005-772X
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/0005772X.2021.1982315
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1080/0005772X.2021.1982315

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