This topic has a complicated and disparate history, spread over different continents and relating to different areas of indexing, cataloguing and filing. Some traditional filing systems treated Mac/Mc names as if the prefix were a letter such as a putative "Mc" between L and M or between M and N in the alphabet. Mc tab on a file card divider of British origin. Sorting both under "Mc" is generally avoided as it can cause issues with names that do not contain the prefix (such as Macclesfield or Macey). In addition to sorting them under "Mac" and "Mc" respectively or choosing to sort them both under "Mac", it is known for Mc/Mac names to be placed in separate position before M. Rules once used for filing have been dropped for some newer computer systems, and the interfiling of Mac and Mc names is an example, according to a 2006 book. On the other hand, ASCII is a computer standard and its corresponding sorting is gradually replacing this exception to ordinary alphabetisation. Technically this is a convention in collation. It is also applied in areas such as voter registration, where Mac and Mc names may be sorted together in a listing. An example is from the Archives at the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī convention of sorting names with the Scottish and Irish patronymic prefixes Mac and Mc together persists in library science and archival practice. ( June 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to ensure that disputed statements are reliably sourced.
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