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Spelling of hypoglycaemia

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Mark122

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Hypoglycaemia is the British spelling and it is always spelled this way by the NHS (except when quoting American studies), and The Lancet and The British Medical Journal. (It is also the Australian, New Zealand, Irish and South African spelling, so it is not only British!).

This site appears to use the American spelling - http://www.diabetes.co.uk/Diabetes-and-Hypoglycaemia.html
Some people get confused regarding the spelling of hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is the way it is spelt in the UK and hypoglycemia is the American spelling.
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I think it would be better if the British spelling were used consistently!

Mark
 
We use hypoglycaemia at work.

There are loads of medical words spelt differently in the States and the UK.

Noah Webster, back in 1828 compiled An American Dictionary of the English Language and deliberately changed the spelling of words to differentiate between the languages of the two countries.

An American friend and I have ongoing discussions and the letters in words that are differently spelt are always in capital letters - colOUr and colOr, centRE and centER or example.
 
Do a lot of reading, in books and on the web, of scientific material and youu'll become familiar with the differences between British and US spelling.
I think, in Canada, some people use one and some the other.
It's not only scientific
cf; "Jewelry" and "jewellery"
Hana
 
Surely we need a proper clear differentiation between high-glycaemia & low-glycaemia. First-aiders can be easily confused & may not know whether to give emergency insulin or glucogel.
 
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