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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!)

Thanks,

Raghu

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Raghuveer Parthasarathy
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