[Histonet] RE: Glassware Cleaning again

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Bromcresol means Bromocresol.

Faint not, but I certainly can't say you won't dye if you leave out the O.

The "o" is subject to elision  due to its difficulty in pronounciation.

Such an occurrence of elision between 2 consonants is called syncope.

In English writing an elided vowel is often replaced with an apostrophe to
indicate the elision and perhaps demonstrate the dialect of the speaker.

Colloquial dialects in writing are too informal for stuffy scientific 
and medical types, and indeed
special meaning is liable to be construed to the presence of a spurious
punctuation in the name of a chemical.

We don't see {brom'cresol} in
the lab {purple, green} but we can hear of an existence
where it lives happily under other nomenclature.

So "bromcresol" means "bromocresol".

And as in American politics,
the removal of an "O" might seem to make a difference visually
and even might be comfortable to some,
but actually would amount absolutely nothing in terms of what is
being represented, or the dying that is going on.



On 8/16/2014 12:35 AM, Cooper, Brian wrote:
> I noticed the discrepancy in spelling too.  I looked online for like 30 minutes, and couldn't find anything called "Bromcresol."  Found a lot of vendors selling Bromocresol Purple (and Green for that matter).  Best I can figure is that this is a typo on CAP's checklist (that's been there for several years now).
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> Thanks,
>
> Brian D. Cooper, HT (ASCP)CM | Histology Supervisor
> Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
> Children's Hospital Los Angeles
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> Is bromocresol purple the same as bromcresol purple?  The CAP question regarding glassware cleaning refers to bromcresol purple, but I ordered a powder and it is labeled as bromocresol purple.
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> Laurie Colbert, HT (ASCP)
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