In an alphabetical catalog by book titles and author names, the name De Santis would be filed relative to Deutsch how?

In an alphabetical catalog by book titles and author names, the name De Santis would be filed relative to Deutsch how?

• A. Before Deutsch
• B. After Deutsch
• C. Between Deutsch and DiNardo
• D. At the end

Answer: (A)

Alphabetical filing compares names letter by letter, and typical practice treats a surname like De Santis as part of the whole last name, ignoring spaces and punctuation for sorting. Both names start with the same letters D and e. After that, the next significant character in De Santis is S (from Santis) once you ignore the space, while in Deutsch the next character is u. Since S comes before U in the alphabet, De Santis comes earlier in the order than Deutsch. So De Santis would be filed before Deutsch.

Alphabetical filing compares names letter by letter, and typical practice treats a surname like De Santis as part of the whole last name, ignoring spaces and punctuation for sorting.

Both names start with the same letters D and e. After that, the next significant character in De Santis is S (from Santis) once you ignore the space, while in Deutsch the next character is u. Since S comes before U in the alphabet, De Santis comes earlier in the order than Deutsch.

So De Santis would be filed before Deutsch.