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The first form and the second should be exchanged. Then the order 

 of the words will represent a growth; for the more common words 

 become, the more closely they are united — first separate words, then 

 joined with hyphen, then joined directly without hyphen. All words 

 do not pass through the three stages, but they almost invariably pass 

 through the second stage before they are used in the third. Thus we 

 would first write fish-moth; then after long use, we write fishmoth. 



The arrangement of the words has much to do with the meaning. 

 For example, a crow is a black bird, but not a black-bird or blackbird. 

 We might even have a white black-bird, but not a white black bird. A 

 cabbage root-maggot would indicate one of many kinds of root maggots; 

 but a cabbage-root maggot would indicate a maggot which feeds upon 

 the root of cabbage, and there might not be another root-maggot in 

 existence. A Colorado potato-beetle would mean a certain kind of 

 potato-beetle; but a Colorado-potato beetle would mean a beetle that 

 injures the Colorado potato. A shifting of the little hyphen entirely 

 changes the meaning. 



There seems no use whatever for capital letters, except at the begin- 

 ning of words derived from proper names, as in Colorado potato-beetle 

 or Angoumois grain-moth. In all other cases I have not used them, 

 though Professor Gillette begins each name with a capital. I have 

 also arranged the names in alphabetical order. They were partly so 

 before. 



In the list below, the form which Professor Gillette prefers I have 

 followed with a G. In some cases he gives his sanction to two forms 

 as equally good. The forms I prefer I have followed with a D. We 

 agree on about one-fourth of the forms. 



LIST OF VERNACULAR NAMES. 



Angoumois grain moth, G 



ant lion, G 



aphis lion, G 



apple maggot, G 



apple weevil, G 



bag worm 



bark louse, G 



bed bug 



bee flies, G 



bee louse, G 



black fly, G 



black swallow tail 



blister beetle, G 



boll worm, G 



botfly 



bristle tail 



bud moth, G 



cabbage butterfly, G 



cabbage root-maggot, D ( ?) 



cabbage worm, G 



caddis fly, G 



Angoumois grain-moth, D 



ant-lion, D 



aphis-lion, D 



apple-maggot, D 



apple-weevil, D 



bag- worm, D 



bark-louse, D 



bed-bug 



bee-flies, D 



bee-louse, D 



black-fly, D 



black swallow-tail, G 



blister-beetle, D 



boll-worm, D 



bot-fly, D 



bristle-tail, G 



bud-moth, D 



cabbage-butterfly, D 



cabbage-root maggot, G 



cabbage- worui, D 



caddis-fly, D 



Angoumois grainmoth 



antlion 



aphislion 



applemaggot 



appleweevil 



bag worm, G 



barklouse 



bedbug, G, D 



beeflies 



beelouse 



blackfly 



black swallowtail, D 



blisterbeetle 



bollworm, G 



botfly, G 



bristletail, D 



budmoth 



cabbagebutterfly 



cabbage rootmaggot 



cabbage worm 



caddisfly 



