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Re: USAGE: Betreft: USAGE: surname prefixes

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, April 20, 2000, 17:28
Rob Nierse wrote:

> Well, in Dutch there are some prefixes that indicate location or origin. > van, van de and van der indicate somthing like 'belonging to' > We also have 's <des (genitive) in placenames like 's Hertogenbosch > (genitive-the wood of the duke) and 's Gravenhage (genitive-the wood > of the count).
What about "ter" as a surname prefix? The press secretary of U.S. President Gerald Ford (1974-76) was named "Jerry ter Horst" and I remember hacking a surname-canonicalization subroutine to handle this case correctly. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)