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Subject:RE: suffix in or suffix to (a name)? From:"Chris Vickery" <cvickery -at- arenasolutions -dot- com> To:"Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>, "Jill Mohan" <jillemo -at- gmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:36:46 -0800
Saying someone "has a suffix to their name" sounds like the saying
"hasn't a penny to his name". It definitely trips me up.
How about "when searching for a person with a suffix appended to their
name"? or "when searching for someone whose name contains a suffix"?
Both sound better to me.
Chris
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On Behalf Of Lauren
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Subject: RE: suffix in or suffix to (a name)?
I'd go with "to." Words have suffixes and prefixes and I wouldn't refer
to
a prefix being "in" a word, but a prefix "to" a word. A suffix to a
word or
a suffix to a name should be refered the same way as a prefix.
Lauren
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> Subject: suffix in or suffix to (a name)?
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> When searching for a person with a suffix in their name, do this.
>
> or
>
> When searching for a person with a suffix to their name, do this.
>
> Anybody know which is correct - either grammatically or
> human-intelligence-wise?
>
> The snob in me says that the masses would prefer to read the first
> rendering, but that the second rendering is the proper one.
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