When you are alphabetizing musical group names, what beginning words do you ignore? For example, “An Extension of Him” or “The Helpful Crew” or “In His Name?”
Thanks.
You'd ignore "An" and "The" -- also "A" -- alphebetize by the next word.
No word is ignored in your third example.
According to this and several other sites, we omit beginning articles (A, An, The) when alphabetizing.
Extension of Him, An
Helpful Crew, The
In His name
http://www.ehow.com/how_2109615_alphabetize.html
When alphabetizing musical group names, you typically ignore certain words at the beginning of the name, which are called "ignorable words." These words are often articles (like "a," "an," or "the") and certain prepositions (like "in," "on," or "of").
In the examples you provided:
- "An Extension of Him" would be alphabetized as "Extension of Him" (ignoring the word "An").
- "The Helpful Crew" would be alphabetized as "Helpful Crew" (ignoring the word "The").
- "In His Name" would be alphabetized as "His Name" (ignoring the word "In").
So, when alphabetizing musical group names, simply skip over these ignorable words and arrange the names based on the first significant word that follows.