To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 02:46:55 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: getting it right
From: ronkean at juno.com

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:20:40 -0400 (EDT) "Keith F. Lynch"
<kfl at KeithLynch.net> writes:

... I had that problem at work today.  A person mentioned many times in
> a set of depositions I'm proofreading had a very strange name.  ...
Nielsenhayden, and news
> reporters were about evenly split between Nielsen-Hayden and
> Nielsen Hayden, with a handful holding out for Nielsenhayden.
...
> We're not supposed to contact any of the people involved.
>
> The person in question is dead, but for some reason does not show
> up
> under any of these names in the online Social Security Death Index.
>
> What would you do?
>

You could pick one of the spellings, or have your manager pick one, and
put "(sp?)" after it to indicate the spelling is in doubt.  You could ask
management to contact the customer and ask how they think it should be
spelled.

Ron Kean

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