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in thread Changing from full name to last, first mid

Then you have someone like me who breaks your code. "Brendan Van Horn" should end up as "Van Horn, Brendan." Nothing against you, but I really get tired of people who think my middle name is Van.

Owl looked at him, and wondered whether to push him off the tree; but, feeling that he could always do it afterwards, he tried once more to find out what they were talking about.

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Re: Re: Re: changing full name to last, first mid
by ysth (Canon) on May 25, 2004 at 07:42 UTC
    Other gotchas:

    Prefixes for last name: De, Del, Dela, Di, Du, El, La, Le, Mac, Mc, San, St., Van, Vanden, Vander, Ver, Von, etc.
    Suffixes for last name: II, III, IV, Sr, Jr, MD, PhD, etc.

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