Talk:Cephalexin

From Encyc

Well, Cephalexin is the International Non-proprietary Name, and gives over 24,000,000 gHits, whereas Cefalexin, the United States Adopted Name, has 686,000 gHits. Wikipedia, being Americanocentric, chooses the latter :/ The name, of course, comes from the bacterium, Cephalosporium acremonium Corda - with a P and a H :) - Alison 03:25, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm really quite sick of Wikipedians framing everything as USA vs. the World. In this case, they didn't even get their facts straight before shooting off. Cephalexin is used in the US and Australia and I suspect lots of other places. The Latin root of the word is cephal- (head) but my guess is that the international types wanted a spelling that wouldn't be mispronounced (to save lives, because someone with a cephalexin allergy needs to be able to communicate that and might not know how to pronounce "ph"). So English-speaking countries must choose to stick with the cepha or go to cefa. Or continue with the current mishmash, which seems about right. Auggie 16:55, 15 September 2010 (UTC)