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Subject: (semi-ot) "van der" Names

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 19:11:08 03/22/04

In my thesis I want to refer to van der Meulen's work (that was published in
Advances in Computer Chess 5).  I have the following sentence fragment:

"van der Meulen (1989) provides algorithms for..." (blah, blah).

In English, it's pretty much compulsory to start the sentence with a capital
letter, but I don't want to rearrange the sentence so that the name is not at
the front.  However, using "Van der Meulen" just makes me think that it's
spelled incorrectly.

Does anyone know the proper practice for this?

Dave

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