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Why does SMITH VD MA, JOHN read family SMITH MA with VD as a suffix? #573
When a name is written in one case, a particle that is also a credential (vd, mc) gets pulled out of the middle of a family name or a given part. That leaves a family name that isn't in source order. #554 settled that these words count as credentials after a comma. These shapes are different: one is before the comma, the other is in the given part's trailing slot. The writing that #554 treated as decisive (uniform case) is exactly where they break.
One name word before a family comma:VD stays behind in the family, cut off from the word it heads. That is neither reading: as a particle the family is SMITH VD MA (2.3.0's reading), and as credentials it is family SMITH, suffix VD MA, the way SMITH, PHD MA reads.
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docs(C1): second review round for #554 -- history, Open handle, labels
Merge pull request #579 from derek73/fix/issue-573-particle-credentia…
docs(C1): point derek73#554's decision at follow-up derek73#573
fix(P2/P6/S2): derek73#573 -- vd and mc read alike in every case
docs(P2/P6/S2): derek73#573 -- amend the rules, record the decision, …
fix(P2/P6/S2): derek73#573 review round -- right site, right question…
fix(P6/S2): derek73#573 second review -- a linear lead walk, P6's tru…
docs(P2): derek73#573 third review -- a lone letter reads as without …
docs(P6): derek73#573 -- the mixed-case silence is derek73#578