Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 23:09:00 +0000 From: James Raynard <fdocs@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: comment to keep developers list sorted? Message-ID: <19971205230900.02550@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19971205011952.39044@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>; from John-Mark Gurney on Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 01:19:52AM -0800 References: <19971205011952.39044@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 01:19:52AM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > should we add a comment to contrib.sgml that says to keep the list > sorted by last name? Seems reasonable. > also, what is the sorting order of O'something names? we have an > O'Brien that is sorted with the O's.. and we have a O'Callaghan sorted > with the C's.. I don't know if the US uses the same convention, but the phone books here sort names starting with an O' as if the apostrophe wasn't there, eg Oates O'Callaghan Ockham O'Grady Also, Mac and Mc are both sorted as if they were spelt Mac, eg McDonald Machek MacIlroy McKenzie -- In theory, theory is better than practice. In practice, it isn't. James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland. http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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