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From: Julie Comstock-Fisher <julief -at- pdainc -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 10:54 AM
Subject: OT: What do you call this?
>I looked in the archives and couldn't find any prior
>discussions on this topic.
>
>If you have a person with an addition following
>their name, such as "Jr." or "III", what do you call
>that addition? My immediate answer was to call it a
>suffix, but I told the developer who asked that I
>would try to find out if that was right.
>
>Julie Comstock-Fisher Documentation Manager
>julief -at- pdainc -dot- com PDA, Inc.