Pet Peeve number 145

[jakeaidan]

Book stores that put author names that start with Mc BEFORE authors whose names start with Ma. Come on now, is alphabetical order that difficult? You don't put names that start with Sc before names that start with Sa. All I can imagine is some person looking at the Mc and thinking "M followed by a consonant? That's madness, I have no idea what

Comments

[gconnor]

Maybe they thought Mc was an abbreviation for Mac? But yeah, still retarded.

I Think It's An Alphabetizing Convention

[nihilistech]

It doesn't make sense to me, but I also remember, when I was a kid and kept people's names and addresses on physical index cards, that Mc got it's own tab, and I think, it came before M. Didn't make sense to me then, and doesn't now, but I don't think it's anything new.

[quixoticfish]

I agree!!! And acronyms too.