How to decide? Ask a librarian. Having said that, computers have a filing convention generated on their understanding of the alphabet which is becoming the norm — especially for indexing. So ma—mab—mac — mah—man— mc. Easiest way to see this is to make a small list in Excel and sort. Letter by letter: They also largely ignore distinctions among different punctuation marks and do not distinguish among the types of access points. Alphabetize letter by letter.
Ignore spaces, capitalization, hyphens, apostrophes, periods, and accent marks. When alphabetizing titles or group names as authors, go by the first significant word disregard a, an, the, etc. Practically, this would mean knowing the country in every case, and knowing the rule for every country. In addition, it could lead to confusion if, e. It is only an example of what might occur in languages I don't know. The Belgian habbit is quite simple: don't shuffle anything around and don't abbreviate.
The sorting rule in the Netherlands is more complicated. Some weird examples from a NL -Dutch telephone guide sort order respected : beek, a. If I don't find him there,.
Of course, there is a price to pay when I insist on the correct spelling: my data are not found without personal guidance telephone number, physician, credit card, bank, insurances, etc. Alphabetic order for van, Mac, Mc,? Micheal Mac an Airchinnigh. Reply to author.
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