Re: Name Terminology

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
George Lucki of rec.heraldry make plain:

> With the expanding list of not only particles but patronymics,
> articles, etc. I am a liitle confused as to what categories of things
> you are including - it seems like you are looking to identify any
> short string of letters that can be potentially (correctly or not)
> detached from a surname.

That's correct. It's for a program that breaks a name down into its
various parts, and it needs to be able to identify these items as part of
the surname. It's easy for a human to look at a name like "Eddie Van
Halen" and see this, but to a computer it's just a bunch of letters. So,
basically I need to tell it "If the penultimate group of letters is in
this list, make it part of the surname; otherwise assume it's a middle
name."

> There would be no common name for all of these things that I am aware
> of - there are many different sorts of things you are considering.

I've settled on "predicate" for my purposes. Again, I just needed
something to call it within the context of my program, but if I should
ever need to refer to it in conversation, that's most likely the term I'd
use.

--
Methuselah
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself."
-- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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