| From: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | rod(at)iol(dot)ie |
| Cc: | iepug(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Culturally aware initcap |
| Date: | 2010-04-19 23:27:48 |
| Message-ID: | h2sdb471ace1004191627q4aedf824y535b054d1898ebed@mail.gmail.com |
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> Nice one Peter.
>
> ...Now what about Mc, Mac, Ní, Nic, Uí, etc etc etc? :-D
Well, they're people who don't have any reasonable expectation of
having the second syllable of their names initcap'd, because they
never have :-)
"culturally aware initcap" is actually a big misnomer. It just doesn't
step on the toes of O'Sullivans and O'Shaughnessys, who have come to
expect having their names initcap'd, while correctly initcap'ing
possessive apostrophes (i.e. not doing it).
Regards,
Peter Geoghegan
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