rules for business names

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Rules for Business Names

By: Johanna Dagoy


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Order of Indexing Units

General rule

- names of businesses, except those

containing the full name of an individual, are

indexed as they are.

example:

Mac Shopping Store

indexed:

Mac Shopping Store


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Order of Indexing unit

- If the full name of an individual appears in a

business name, the units in the individuals

name are transposed.

example:

Jean Boston CooperativeIndexed:

Jean Boston Cooperative


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Order of Indexing Unit

- A business name containing a title followed by asingle given name, a surname, or a coined nameis indexed as written. It the title is abbreviated, it

is indexed spelled out.

example:

Senora Mitch Beauty Parlor

Indexed:

Senora Mitch Beauty Parlor


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Articles, Prepositions and Conjunctions

- English articles, prepositions and conjunctions

in a business name are generally not

considered to be indexing units.

- They are enclosed in parentheses ( ) to set

them off from the indexing units


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- The word The, when appearing as the first

word in a business name, is place at the end

of the name and is enclosed in parentheses ( ).

example:

The Show StoreIndexed:

Show Store (the)


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- Exception: when a preposition is the first word in abusiness name, the preposition is considered to be thefirst indexing unit. In addition, when a word that isnormally classified as a preposition is used as a

modifying word or as part of a compound name, thatword is considered to be an indexing unit.

example:

Of White and Black Wardrobe

indexed:

Of White And Black Wardrobe


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Abbreviations

Example:

Genl Merchandise Business

Indexed:

General Merchandise Business


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Single Letters

- Two or more single letters, each letter is considered tobe a separate indexing unit, no matter whether theletters are written separately or are written together.Punctuation ( , , ) of the letters is also immaterial.

Example:

ABC Construction

ABC MaterialsIndexed:

ABC Construction

ABC Materials


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Hyphened Business Names

- When two or more initials, words, names, wordsubstitutes, or coined words in a business nameare joined by a hyphen, the hyphen is disregardedand each part of the name considered to be aseparate indexing unit.

Example:

R-L JewelryIndexed:

R- L Jewelry


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Articles, prepositions ( in, at, with, on, etc.) andconjunctions that are joined to other words byhyphens also follow this rule: each is a separate

indexing unit.

example:

Wash-a-Car Shoppe

indexed:

Wash a Car Shoppe


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When a hyphen joins two parts of a single word,both parts are considered together as on indexingunit.

(anti- , bi- , co- , inter- , intra- , mid- , pre- , etc.)

Example:

Trans-Davao BusIndexed:

Trans-Davao Bus


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Words that can be written singly or

Together

- Airport, everybody, goodwill, lakeside

- Points of the compass northeast, southwest

Example:Good Will Locksmith Shop

North East Dinning Furniture

Indexed:

Goodwill Locksmith Shop

Northeast Dinning Funiture


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Numbers and Symbols in Business

Names

- Numbers and symbols within a business name

are spelled out.

- The complete number is considered to be oneword.

- If the number is accompanied by a symbol,

the symbol is considered separately as a word.

- Four-place numbers are expressed in

hundreds, not in thousands.


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Numbers and Symbols in Business

Names

Examples:

1 Store Stop

1st Book

1900 Old Store#1 Company

Indexed:

One Store Stop

First BookNineteenhundred Old Store

Number One Company


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Possessives

- When a word contains an apostrophe showingpossession, all of the word up to theapostrophe is considered. If an s follows the

apostrophe, the s is disregarded with aparentheses.

example:

Jens Design Furniture

Indexed:

Jen(s) Design Furniture

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