How to abbreviate a Spanish/French/Belgian/English Name to Initials?
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Tobi
Tobi
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Oct 17, 2006

Hello,
I need to abbreviate some Names to Initials, which are to be printed on a gift to personalize it (i.e. John Fitzgerald Kennedy becomes JFK etc.). I have problems with the following names. It would be great, if you could advise how to abbreviate these names correctly considering the rules in the respective countries.
Thank you in advance.
Tobi

Borja Gil de Sola (Spanish)
Yann Le Masson (French)
James McIlveen (English)
Ward de Letter (Belgia
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Hello,
I need to abbreviate some Names to Initials, which are to be printed on a gift to personalize it (i.e. John Fitzgerald Kennedy becomes JFK etc.). I have problems with the following names. It would be great, if you could advise how to abbreviate these names correctly considering the rules in the respective countries.
Thank you in advance.
Tobi

Borja Gil de Sola (Spanish)
Yann Le Masson (French)
James McIlveen (English)
Ward de Letter (Belgian)
Patrick Della Chiara (French)
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Jack Doughty
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(English) J McI Oct 17, 2006

Found this site about cricket:
http://www.firstandthird.org/tables/results/show.phtml?view=rep&page=termid.8010:crewtype.5000:crewid.36
which includes a reference to a batsman named J McI Glass. But in this case McI stands for his middle name. There are others on Google listed in the same way.

[Edited at 2006-10-
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Found this site about cricket:
http://www.firstandthird.org/tables/results/show.phtml?view=rep&page=termid.8010:crewtype.5000:crewid.36
which includes a reference to a batsman named J McI Glass. But in this case McI stands for his middle name. There are others on Google listed in the same way.

[Edited at 2006-10-17 16:14]
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Gerard de Noord
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Ward de Letter (Belgian) Oct 17, 2006

Ward de Letter (Belgian) = W. de L.

Regards,
G. de N.


 
Irene Marinas (X)
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abbreviate a Spanish name Oct 18, 2006

In Spanish we normally use the initial of the name and both surnames.

For you exemple it would be: Borja Gil de Sola = BGS

I hope this helps!

Regards,
Irene Marinas Rodríguez = IMR


 


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How to abbreviate a Spanish/French/Belgian/English Name to Initials?






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