Is there a formal name for the (Mc,Mac,O,Van.. .) part of a last name?
Tom
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"DC" <nospam> wrote: Yes, there is. It is part of the last name and there are not spaces.
MCDONALD.
In the case of Mcs and Macs you are correct. However not for the Van and von den's
of seen. O with the apostrophe is an iffy case.
Tony
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Tom Warren wrote: Is there a formal name for the (Mc,Mac,O,Van.. .) part of a last name?
Tom
"Drunk"?
Lyle Fairfield wrote: Tom Warren wrote:
Is there a formal name for the (Mc,Mac,O,Van.. .) part of a last name?
Tom
"Drunk"?
I had a feeling you were.
Tony Toews wrote: "DC" <nospam> wrote:
Yes, there is. It is part of the last name and there are not spaces.
MCDONALD.
In the case of Mcs and Macs you are correct. However not for the Van
and von den's of seen. O with the apostrophe is an iffy case.
Tony
I've yet to be able to code the capilisation for all known variants of
names like this... Esp with "van" which can have either caps (and there
are probably others).
Br@dley
"Tom Warren" <tw*@gate.net > wrote Is there a formal name for the (Mc,Mac,O,Van.. .) part of a last name?
PreSurname appears to have been coined here: http://www.johncardinal.com/tmgutil/capitalizenames.htm
But most sites simply use "prefix". The site cited above is for a utility
to capitalize thousands of surnames correctly.
Darryl Kerkeslager
Br@dley wrote: I've yet to be able to code the capilisation for all known variants
of names like this... Esp with "van" which can have either caps (and
there are probably others).
Br@dley
Me either, but I still try.
Tom
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:43:05 GMT, "Br@dley" <br@dley.com> wrote:
I'm an expert on "van". It's always lowercase if it has a Dutch root.
It is considered part of the last name. Don't confuse it with a middle
initial. I never understood the middle initial part - Dutch catholics
often have 3 names, like in Thomas Petrus Johannes van Stiphout. I
guess P.J. would be my middle initial?
-Tom. Tony Toews wrote: "DC" <nospam> wrote:
Yes, there is. It is part of the last name and there are not spaces.
MCDONALD.
In the case of Mcs and Macs you are correct. However not for the Van
and von den's of seen. O with the apostrophe is an iffy case.
Tony
I've yet to be able to code the capilisation for all known variants of
names like this... Esp with "van" which can have either caps (and there
are probably others).
Br@dley
rkc wrote: Lyle Fairfield wrote:
Tom Warren wrote:
Is there a formal name for the (Mc,Mac,O,Van.. .) part of a last name?
Tom
"Drunk"?
I had a feeling you were.
Does this mean you are not going ahead with your plan to refinance The
Breeze, so that you can come over and visit?
I hope no one took offense to my association of "Drunk" with Mc, Mac and
O. It was just a association I learned in my childhood.
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