| Re: My name is "Klaas de Vries", question about the insertion? |
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| Klaas (no@spam.nl) |
2004/03/03 03:14 |
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Subject: Re: My name is "Klaas de Vries", question about the insertion?
From: Klaas <no@spam.nl>
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"John of Aix" <j.murphy@libertysurf.fr> wrote in news:c21p00$jkk$1@news-
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>>Hi all,
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>>I am dutch.
>>My name is "Klaas de Vries". My friend's name is "Jack van der Molen".
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>>Ofcourse, my firstname is "Klaas" and my lastname is "de Vries".
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>>How do you call the little insertion 'de' in my name?
>>Or 'van der' in my friends name?
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>>Is insertion the correct word?
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> Well nobody ever makes reference to this but if they did it would be
> 'particle' or more particularly 'nobiliary particle'.
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Thanks! I looked it up in my Oxford English Reference and could not find
this, though. Strange that nobody makes reference to this. In the
Netherlands it is a common thing on all kinds of official forms to fill in:
Voornaam: (First name) Klaas
Tussenvoegsel: (Particle) (?) de
Achternaam: (Last name) Vries
Anyway, I trust this is right.
Thanks for your help.
Klaas
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