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

Author: Djordje Vidanovic

Date: 20:47:24 03/22/04

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On March 22, 2004 at 22:11:08, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>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


Meulen, _first name_ van der: should be the standard for this.



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